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    "id": 1147339,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kajiado North, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Joseph Manje",
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        "legal_name": "Joseph Wathigo Manje",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, for giving me this chance to contribute to this Motion. I want to see things differently. I want to oppose creation of a medical unit within Parliament. We should concentrate on the core business of Parliament, which is legislation. If you create something, it is with the intention of growing it into a big thing. Our Parliament is located in a good place where there are medical facilities around. It is in the capital city where there are good hospitals. The Nairobi Hospital, Kenyatta National Hospital and many other hospitals are within reach. If we establish a health unit within Parliament, it will be a continuation of creating amorphous bodies within Parliament. We will start recruiting matrons, doctors and other staff. There is no way we will create a facility as good as the Nairobi Hospital or Aga Khan Hospital. That should not be the way to see things. If we establish a health unit in Parliament, county assemblies will start thinking along the same lines. They will establish health units within the assemblies. There will be a multiplication of units offering services that should be offered by the medical fraternity. We would have diverted from what we came to do here. We should remember that health is a very sensitive area. You do not want to go to a unit and find the person treating you is also treating another person. Politics is very different. It is better if it is left open so that you can go to any facility in the country. That will secure Members of Parliament. We need to concentrate on what we came to do here. Establishing a health unit will be diversionary. We will be trying to create employment in different areas instead of leaving it to the medical fraternity. I oppose."
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