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    "id": 1139268,
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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Farhiya",
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        "legal_name": "Farhiya Ali Haji",
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    "content": "tribe because of locality issues. You should give leadership to the person who deserves and not a person who is corrupt and just filling their own pockets. Madam Deputy Speaker, coming back to this Bill, I also wish to thank Sen. Shiyonga for not allowing the Kenya Medical Supplies Agency (KEMSA) to continue enjoying a monopoly. If they enjoy the monopoly, they will not need to work hard to ensure that they are competitive. If there are other competitors, then KEMSA will be forced to ensure that they are competitive, so that people can buy from them because other people will have been more expensive compared to them. That way, counties will save money and out of the savings from the inefficiencies of KEMSA, there will be more drugs available to the people of the counties so that they are able to deliver in terms of medical supplies. There will also be continuous supply of drugs because of the efficiency that comes with competition. This country has a tendency of capitalism although there is some socialism that is part of it like medical services that we still subsidize. If KEMSA is not allowed to be competitive then we are killing businesses as well because there are other people who are in that business who should also be competitive enough to ensure that they are more efficient than KEMSA so that counties can get more drugs in their stores as a result of the efficiency that is enjoyed. I also tend to believe that the reason we have power problems in Wajir County right now is because Kenya Power generates and it also supplies power. That chain should be cut in Wajir. I appeal to the Ministry of Energy and Petroleum to ensure that KenGen supplies power instead of Kenya Power. Right now Kenya Power charges people the way they want, but if KenGen is supplying, then there will be constant supply of power because Kenya Power will be paying them according to the units supplied. Right now, Kenya Power has a monopoly in Wajir County and that creates a major problem in our county. I think the Ministry of Energy and Petroleum needs to review that and ensure that that issue is addressed so that the people of Wajir County and Wajir County Referral Hospital have constant supply of power. Madam Deputy Speaker, I support and thank you for giving me this opportunity to contribute to this Bill."
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