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"content": "numbers they had to pass the Miscellaneous Security (Amendment) Bill, which was declared unconstitutional. We are supposed to be a House of reflection. When a small practitioner then goes to court and renders all of us, 68, including the Speaker, as being people who cannot reflect on issues, then I am afraid that it does not reflect on the principle of intellectual honesty. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, in Article 10, the functions of the community promoters are defined. I have marked them a, c, f, j, g and l. If we joke around, we are handling a very critical role of taking care of our children into the hands of people who will promote ‘quackism,’ as we call it in Science. These people will become so authoritative. Your child will get an asthmatic attack and you take the child to him. He or she will tell you to go home, that your child has a sore throat and it will be alright. You go home innocently because this person is very recognised now by this law, and the child dies. It is time legislation accommodated professionalism. Where we need lawyers, populate it with lawyers. Where we need human resource professionals, do the same. Where you need people like us, accommodate them. That is the only way we will make our society all inclusive. Having said that, yesterday, I spoke to the other Bill and said that I want to make amendments. However, I thought about it overnight. I am the Majority Whip and this is a Bill by the Senate Majority Leader. Why would I be amending that Bill? You think it does not look good? Something was missing. We should have team spirit, so that people know what is coming. If I am whipping Senators to come and vote on a Bill, and I am the one who is moving amendments, then am I really part of the team? We do not want to be humiliated. Let consultations be done, so that we can do our job and when we get paid at the end of the month, my children ‘eat’ that money knowing that their father sweated for it. I appeal to this House that there is something called impunity. I am not teaching anybody, but impunity is exempting somebody from punishment for an action that has got injurious consequences. Let us not introduce impunity in legislation. I support and request that we do not rush this process. We ensure that this is done properly and finely. Do you know why? I have been a medical officer of health for the current Machakos and Kakamega counties. I know the appetite that might be in this drafting; people are eyeing global funds. Global funds tend to go for primary health promotion. Global funds for combating malaria, HIV and Tuberculosis (TB) go for primary care. A joker in Nairobi wants this money to be controlled from Nairobi, so that that they do what they usually do. Let us give salaries to Kenyans. Some of you come from places like Kiambu, Machakos and Kakamega, where literacy levels are high and poverty levels are reasonably lower. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, people in some counties, including Turkana, with all due respect, must be protected by the legislation that we make. With those remarks, I support and call for caution."
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