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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Mungatana MGH",
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    "content": "Mr. Speaker, Sir, we will be giving powers to the wrong person in this particular case. This will expose this Bill to constitutional challenges because the money is supposed to follow the function. If you create this advisory council at the national level, it means you have to fund it. Where will the money come from? The money that is supposed to come down to our governors and counties is now supposed to fund a national body that does not even visit us or know what we do in Tana River County. It does not know that maybe, traditional medicine is critical for us. The way we want to do primary health care might be slightly different from how Mombasa or Nairobi City counties want to do it. You then create a body that does not visit us or appreciate the role of primary healthcare workers at the local level. Mr. Speaker, Sir, we need to sit down and really give it a thought. Why are we creating this bureaucracy at the national level and giving them powers? Are we doing something that is against the spirit of the Constitution? We want primary healthcare to be devolved properly. If we should bring any laws from the Senate, they should be strengthening the nuts. They should make sure that the national Government has no excuse whatsoever for retaining that money at the national level. I want to convince my colleagues to bring some amendments here in whichever form. These people at the national level will create work for themselves. They will say they need to sit down and visit the counties et cetera . This will be a lot of money and allowances which should go down to the county governments to buy medicine or do something practical with. I do not think they will be adding much more value. The same health professionals will be sitting at the national level. I want us to look at this point and see where we can agree, as a Senate, to protect the interests of the counties and, at the same time, see how we can improve this. I see the Cabinet Secretary is trying to create a job for himself. There is a second and last point that I want my colleagues to look out for. We have said in the proposed Clause 9 that-"
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