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    "id": 1129384,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Wetangula",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Moses Masika Wetangula",
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    "content": "Kijabe, all these founded by churches. We also have St. Mary’s Hospital in Lang’ata and Nakuru which are run by missionaries. They provide even better services than some Government run hospitals. Why are they not represented on the NHIF Board? They must be represented. Instead the board is filled with public servants who in most cases do not attend the Committee sittings. They send their juniors to such meetings who go there to fill forms and walk away with allowances as things go haywire. We need to have the real providers of health services in this country to sit on that board. I do not know of any Kenyan who has never heard of Kijabe Mission Hospital, St. Mary’s Hospital in Nairobi and Nakuru or Tenwek Mission Hospital. I send people from as far as Bungoma County to Tenwek Hospital for treatment. I do not know of any Kenyan who has never heard of Misikhu or Lugulu Mission Hospitals in Bungoma County. All the hospitals that I have mentioned are missionary founded and run hospitals. Who represents the interests of those mission hospitals? The Principal Secretary Natioanal Treasury or Health will not represent their interests. The Central Organization of Trade Unions (COTU) will also not represent their interests when you have people like Mr. Francis Atwoli swinging around with golden chains everywhere and talking about irrelevant things instead of defending the workers interests. Who is going to defend the workers? Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, in fact, when we talk about COTU, we must start rethinking about the interest of COTU because for the last three years, Atwoli has never spoken about the workers of this country. He is busy boasting about how much money he owns and how much influence he can peddle and what he can do including but not limited to inviting Congolese musicians to come and entertain him in the glare of pubic eyes when workers are suffering. We need to change our psyche. We need to change the way we do things in this country. We cannot have people like Atwoli on the board of the National Hospital Insurance Fund (NHIF) to check who benefits from the fund. This is a big joke!"
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