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    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1224592/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Mungatana, MGH",
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    "content": "Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, this is an important Bill and it should have come yesterday. It is a Bill that proposes to give effect to one of the most important constitutional articles that we passed in the 2010 Constitution. In constitutional law, we first have generation rights. They fought because their rights to life, living without discrimination, live in their own land and the colonialists were derogating their basic human rights. Those rights resulted in independent freedom fighters not just in Kenya, but also across the African Continent. You will find that legends like Sam Nujoma of South West Africa People’s Organisation (SWAPO), Nelson Mandela of uMkhonto we Sizwe, Robert Mugabe and many others, fought because of the first generation rights. They fought so that their people could get what belonged to them that the colonialists had taken away from them. Those people then set up the first governments. After the first governments were set up, we started talking about the second generation rights which are basically economic rights. The 2010 Constitution that brought a new era in Kenya tried to capture the socio-economic rights that we also know as second generation rights. These rights deal with the way people should live in a dignified manner; in a way that ensures they have decent housing, a source of income and socio-economic rights that they exercise within the country in which they exist. This is one of the Bills of Parliament that was supposed to be brought, so that the economic and social rights of our people in this country could be realized. This Bill tries to set up a framework in which there will be preservation of the dignity of the Kenyan people. There will also be promotion and monitoring of the social rights that are sought to be enforced in this Bill. There will be mechanism established to monitor and promote the social and economic rights of the Kenyan people. There will be a requirement for county governments to adhere to the promotion of these social and economic rights. This Senate will be setting a new order that will require all the 47 counties to reshape their budgets and approach to budget-making, so that at the end of it, the constitutional goals are achieved. The main one in this particular case is to guarantee the people of Kenya in various counties their social and economic rights. What are these economic and social rights that we are talking about? This Bill defines them in Part II of the Bill. It states that these are the rights accruing to every person in this country. They are captured under Articles 43(1) and 53(1)(c) of the current Constitution. They include the highest attainable standards of health, which includes the right to healthcare services. Health services have degraded in many counties, including in my own County of Tana River. Emergency services are also degraded. In fact, if you happen to fall sick in Tana River County today and you need emergency treatment, management of the Hola County Referral Hospital will quickly right a note for you to go to Kilifi County Hospital,"
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