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    "speaker_name": "Moyale, UPIA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. (Prof.) Guyo Jaldesa",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Deputy Speaker, for giving me this opportunity. As everybody else is doing, may I also take my chance to congratulate you and the Hon. Speaker for your election to lead this House. I also thank the great people of Moyale for giving me an opportunity to serve them in this august House. I also thank the people of Kenya for accepting to remain cohesive and peaceful during the uncomfortable election period. As the President said, the election was intensively contested and both sides had almost equal numbers. There is another 8 million people who did not vote. If they had voted, we do not know which side they would have voted for. However, the people of Kenya remained obedient and loyal to the law. Even the order of the leadership in this House was disputed and somehow settled in a very acrimonious way. There was no clear winner and that is why there was that contest. Africans like to refer to leadership as being God-given, and it is a choice. As leaders in this House, inside and outside here, we need to embrace humanity and try to bring the nation together. On the President’s Speech, I am happy that the President talked about UHC. This is a good thing, but I am of the opinion that we need to find out how to make NHIF cover a universal thing that every Kenyan is entitled to. Our neighbour, Rwanda, has 98 per cent NHIF coverage. There is no reason we cannot do it. There is also need for us to achieve that universal coverage to restructure the Ministry of Health. The Health Ministry was devolved, but that devolution has actually disadvantaged areas that were already disadvantaged. There is no reason why a doctor should not be moved from Kisumu to work in Garissa and vice versa . This business of putting people in counties actually restricts the movement and deployment of staff and, therefore, disadvantages areas which are already disadvantaged. It is my view that health facilities at Level of 4, 5 and 6 should be put under the national Government and Levels 3 and 2 put under the county governments. People said the President gave a short Speech. It was not short! It was actually 33 minutes of oral presentation. Somebody can cover a wide area at that time. I listened carefully to the issues of drought and insecurity in the country. Most Members have contributed to the issue of insecurity. Just a few days before the Address by His Excellency the President, 11 police officers were killed in Turkana. Last week, a police officer was killed. The Government of Kenya should take positive action to ensure that those tribal clashes, clashes between the police and clan clashes come to an end. Hon. Deputy Speaker, as I conclude, let me talk about drought. The lives and livelihoods of people from the North matter. We need to take positive steps to make sure that our lives are protected from recurring droughts. We should take measures to make sure that others do not die unnecessarily from the effects of drought every season. Thank you, Hon. Deputy Speaker."
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