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    "id": 1139263,
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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Farhiya",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Farhiya Ali Haji",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir, for giving me this opportunity to support this Bill. I agree with my colleagues that this is a very timely Bill. When you have an opportunity to source medicine or any other commodity from a variety of places, it gives you an opportunity to compare prices. Right now, we have problems with the Kenya Power because of monopoly. In my county, four premature babies died in incubators because of lack of electricity in a certain hospital. This kind of problem is as a result of monopoly of Kenya Power. Had this country liberalised power, there would have been a competitor to supply power to hospitals. Mr. Speaker, Sir, I take part of the responsibility for the failure of power in Wajir County Referral Hospital. As leaders of Wajir County, I think we have failed our people, not only the Governor but myself too. It is very painful for a mother to lose a baby that she has carried for nine months. Since I joined this Senate, the problem of power in Wajir County has existed. We, the leaders from Wajir County, have not been able to help the people of Wajir to overcome that problem up to now. I think that is a major problem not only for hospitals in Wajir County, but many other places. Some of us who are mothers understand what it means to lose a baby. Mr. Speaker Sir, I do not want to place blame on anybody, but we have a collective responsibility as the leadership from Wajir County, including myself. I should tell the people of Wajir County as their leaders, we have failed them. It is very painful to carry a baby for nine months and go through labour pains, only for you to deliver a premature baby and lose it."
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