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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Mariam Omar",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir. I rise to support the Bill. Article 43 of our Constitution is more of a socio-economic right. First, I thank Sen, Mungatana, MGH, for bringing this Bill. If this Bill goes through, it will be more advantageous to the marginalised communities. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, in Mandera County, we were crying because of drought up until three weeks ago. As I speak, there is rain and floods everywhere. We need capacity building on how to harvest the water for a long-time plan. We also need capacity building on how to transform from pastoralism to agriculture in order for our region to be food secure. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, when it comes to service rendered such as issuance of birth certificates, passports and identifications cards (IDs), we are discriminated against on the other side. We only have one birth registration centre in Mandera Town yet people must access the service nearer to them. To access this service, our people are forced to walk from Takaba and other far-flung areas to Mandera. They travel almost 300 kilometres to get their rights. Service delivery must be nearer to the people. The other issue is on vocational training. In Mandera County, there is a teacher’s training college, which has been built. However, it has not been operational because of lack of equipment. There is also a nursing training college that is not operational yet there is high turnover of nurses in our hospitals. If we train our people from Mandera in nursing, we can employ them and reduce the high turnovers in the hospitals."
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