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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Oketch Gicheru",
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    "content": "THAT the Bill be amended by deleting the word “community health promoter” wherever it appears and substituting thereof the word “community health volunteer”. I would say mine was similar but not exact to what Sen. Osotsi has said. As a consequential clause, having engaged the other side of the House and realised that they were going to amend Clause 15C, I had sought to indicate that we were going to have remuneration to CHPs. That basically meant that you were going to employ them under our labour laws. The bare minimum that I could get is what is required as a minimum wage which is not the exact truth. The exact truth is that the community health promoters are going to be given stipends which I do not think will be over Kshs5,000. I was trying to ask the House to avoid issues of litigation by just maintaining them as volunteers who are just getting stipends. If you do anything that cannot be maintained as volunteers, then it means somebody would go to court that they need to be employed in a standard employment procedure in the country. That is why I was proposing that we maintain these people as community health volunteers just to avoid legislation."
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