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    "id": 1151457,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Farhiya",
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        "legal_name": "Farhiya Ali Haji",
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    "content": "People learn from seeing examples. In life, you do not have to rewind the wheel, but can always have your own starting point. However, if you see others doing better than you, you can copy and move forward, so that you get many ideas and combine them. Mr. Speaker, Sir, in this country, we have brilliant papers. I am told that people from Botswana came to Kenya, looked at our livestock policy, went and implemented it and are beating Kenya because their systems work better. However, we, the people who thought of those ideas, are still grappling with how livestock marketing is done and other things that would have benefited us out of the business of livestock. People copied our ideas, went with them and are now reaping the benefits in folds. In the formula, we passed a criterion on bed occupancy and hospital visits. It had a percentage. That is part of the criterion. I hope that within this Bill, there will be a way of recording that if there was no visit and somebody got the services, there will be a way of recording, so that it goes to the main database in an acceptable format and everybody gets to benefit out of that as well. Mr. Speaker, Sir, in this world where technology has been and it makes a lot of difference in people’s lives, the health sector cannot be left behind. I am glad that Sen. M. Kajwang’, ’ when submitting on the National Cohesion and Peace Building Bill (Senate Bills No. 19 of 2021), averred that water is a luxury. It is true. The Senator, while speaking on behalf of his county, talked of a road leading from one centre to another, which are economic hubs. I am impressed because those are some of the things that make a difference in terms of development of a county. In my county of Wajir, the county headquarters, that is, Wajir Town, is not linked to the national grid of electricity. It does not have a tarmacked road that links Wajir Town to the rest of the country. Some counties have been endowed by both nature and successive administrations that have ensured development reaches those areas."
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