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    "id": 1196182,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Nominated, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Abdisirat Khalif",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker for giving me an opportunity to address this House. May I take this chance to thank my UDA party and the President for nominating me to this House. Hon. Temporary Speaker, this is my maiden speech and I would like to support the policy of delocalisation of teachers. Teachers, like other civil servants, should not be saturated in one area when we have shortages in other parts of the country. We have historical challenges of teachers in Northern Kenya region, where I come from. Unless affirmative action is taken to lower the teacher training college entry points for people from that region, we will never produce enough local teachers. Therefore, as a country, we cannot afford to concentrate teachers in some areas and leave other areas with shortages. Hon. Temporary Speaker, I would also like to highlight some real challenges that we undergo in the Northern Region counties. One of them is drought. We currently have a ravaging drought which has completely wiped-out livelihoods. You are aware that those communities depend on livestock. Due to this cyclic and punishing drought, livestock have been lost. As we speak, we are almost losing human lives because of drought. Our President flagged off relief food almost 40 days ago, and no tangible relief food has reached those destinations of Northern Kenya, particularly Mandera, Wajir, Garissa, Tana River and Turkana. We cannot change the pattern of drought. It is a natural disaster but we can change the effect of drought by mitigating and having proper plans. As we undergo the ravaging drought, we have a twin challenge of insecurity. The few community-based organisations, NGOs and well-wishers attempting to help are not able to reach the final destinations of the food rations due to terror attacks that take place within our boarders. Our security teams are becoming helpless. To add insult to our problem, our security teams are not solving the problem. They are part of the insecurity themselves. Human lives have been lost in unclear circumstances. There are alleged kidnapping and killings of people by our own security agencies. We have seen human lives lost in the hands of our security agencies. People have been killed and their bodies dumped in rivers for becoming mere suspects. A person is suspected and no judicial process that follows after he is arrested. Human lives have been lost as easily as becoming suspects. I am glad that our President has disbanded the Directorate of Criminal Investigation (DCI) killer squad but we should not leave the matter at that point. Those involved must be accountable for what they have done. Action is needed and must be taken now. Decent health is a human right aspect. As much as we make some attempts to improve the situations, people still have to walk long distances to seek medical attention. I support the President in increasing the contributions to the National Hospital Insurance Fund because it is the only organisation doing something tangible. We need to restructure the NHIF and increase the current monthly contribution of Ksh1,700 to at least Ksh10,000 or Ksh8,000, depending on The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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