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    "id": 1159531,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1159531/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Taveta, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. (Dr.) Naomi Shaban",
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        "legal_name": "Naomi Namsi Shaban",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, for giving me this opportunity to also add my voice in congratulating my brother Benjamin Jomo Washiali for a job well-done. This Insurance Professionals Registration Bill is long overdue. We want to see sanity in that sector. We want to see hygiene in that sector. We want to see neatness in that sector. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, most Kenyans did not at first know the meaning of insurance. Today, with the world being a global village, everything has to do with insurance. Kenyans are actually embracing insurance. They have learned the importance of having insurance. But, unfortunately, Kenyans are suffering terribly. It is just because we have too many quacks working in this area. I would just call some of them ‘pedestrian conmen’ because they sell premiums but, at the same time, people do not see the benefits of those premiums. Starting from education, health, motor vehicles and many other sectors, insurance is one of the most important pillars of today’s life. When our brother Washiali came up with this idea, a lot of thought went into it. Many people have suffered here in Kenya. Today, we are seeing some light at the end of a tunnel because introducing professionalism where insurance is concerned is the best way forward. We know that people in other countries and in the developed world do not miss out on the benefits of insurance. It is here in our country where most of the insurance companies and even the insurance brokers have taken people for granted. They have gotten all these clients because they are very good in sweet-talking people. But when it comes to people benefitting from the premiums, certainly, things go wrong. When you look at it, most people have gone through court battles over things which should have been such straightforward. When some poor person out there in Taveta at the grassroots level has had a problem in an accident and they have to go to court, a case will be there for over 10 years, but they are not compensated. At the end of the day, by the time they are compensated, the insurance company will have taken its sweet time to make sure these people get their rightful dues. A lot has been said. I just want to add my voice in congratulating my brother and my colleagues who have spoken before me. We are on the right track. Certainly, we will see the good fruits of having our people insured. Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker."
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