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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Suna West",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Peter Masara",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Deputy Speaker for giving me this opportunity to contribute in this House. First, I congratulate you for being elected the Deputy Speaker of the 13th Parliament. Before I say something about today’s agenda, let me thank the great people of Suna West for electing me for the second time to represent them in this very important House. I thank the youth, religious leaders, professionals, business community and all those who worked 24 hours to ensure that my second victory is one which I am not taken to court to be challenged. As I continue to contribute to today’s Motion, there are several areas I want to mention, more particularly on the youths. We are talking about the Hustler Fund according to the President’s Speech. Some hustlers are old men and women, and the youths. I however want to particularly put emphasis on the issue of the youths of this country. Many were promised that there would be pesa mfukoni while some were to be given Kshs6,000 every month. All of them are, however, now lamenting. If you read the Bible, the Book of Habakkuk, they do not know if there is money in their pockets or at the end of the month they are going to get the promised Kshs6,000. Can we not formulate a policy to have a youth commission that will ensure that small and medium enterprises money is given to the youth? This is because they do not have enterprise startup capital. As we move forward and discuss the President’s Speech, we should also put emphasis on the issues of youths so that they can be part and parcel of this country. I agree with what the President said on the Universal Health Coverage. We want to try and increase the number of people being covered by the National Hospital Insurance Fund (NHIF). However, let us also consider the standards of health facilities in this country. We have very few referral hospitals in this country. If we do not increase their numbers to enable every county to have a well-equipped hospital, we will continue losing our citizens simply because they cannot access standardized health services. On the same note, we may talk of Universal Health Coverage but what about the health workers? Do they have good representation? As we talk, the 47 counties are not able to manage our health workers well. This House should, therefore, consider forming a health commission so that they can deal with issues of health workers in this country. On the same note, I want to talk about infrastructure. The President did not cover this in his Speech. The people of Suna West were expecting a lot in terms of infrastructure. We have a major road in Suna West called Kababu-Piny Oyie-Adera Road which is still unusable. We expected a lot of money to be allocated to infrastructure so that we can benefit to enable us make this road to bitumen standard. We have civil servants in this country and as we all know, the cost of living is so high while salaries remain the same. We need to look into our civil servants, and our men and women in uniform when we discuss economy issues. This is because in their circumstances, very few people think about them. Our education system is confusing. Let us formulate policies which can guarantee standardized education. Today, even the professionals are not sure of what is going to happen tomorrow. January is just next door but we do not know the system we will use. Above all, the Government has tried over a period of time on the issues of free secondary education. The 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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