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    "id": 1143932,
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    "speaker_name": "Turkana CWR, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. (Ms.) Joyce Emanikor",
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        "legal_name": "Joyce Akai Emanikor",
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    "content": "Party has done a good job. He has gone into details of the 17 Acts that this law is amending. We have spent a whole year working on this because it was extensive. We did wide consultations and got memorandums from 35 stakeholders. We had many organisations represented including the Council of Governors, the Ministry of Health, the Nurses Union, the Kenya Medical Social Workers Association, the Health Care Federation and many others. They were over 22. In total, 35 stakeholders participated. We have taken exactly one year since we began working on this Bill. Among the key things that the stakeholders agreed to in terms of the formation of boards and councils…( technical hitch). They recognised professionalism and respective expertise. For instance, they said that the Chairperson must be a member of the specific professional regulatory body and must have a minimum of ten years’ experience in the specific profession. Also, that the Attorney-General and the Principal Secretary for Treasury to be removed from the Boards/ Councils, and should be replaced with the sector-specific professionals. So, professionalism is one thing that we recognised and the stakeholders recommended it. I would like to urge hon. Members to support the Bill with the amendments as proposed by the Committee, as they are intended to achieve improved service delivery to the public and increase efficiency of operations by the respective Boards and Councils. I beg to second. Thank you."
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