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    "id": 1287030,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Methu",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 13581,
        "legal_name": "Methu John Muhia",
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    "content": "If you look at Object 13(c) of this Bill on the role of the Ministry of Health, we are creating another monster and centre of power in the Ministry of Health on issues that are supposed to be dealt with by the county governments. If I look at just Number 3 of this provision, the other two had been spoken about by some of my colleagues, and it reads- “Consolidate and analyse national primary healthcare data from the counties and ensure its timely transmission to stakeholders for use in decision making and resource allocation.” The Ministry is taking data to analyse, so that they can transmit it to the stakeholders. Who are the stakeholders in the provision of primary health? It is the county governments. Therefore, you are picking information from the county government, so that you can transmit it to the county government to use it for decision- making. Why are you doing something that you are not supposed to be doing? Why are you taking data to the people who are supposed to keep this data? Who are the people who are taking this data? We are protectors of devolution. We cannot legislate to say that we want to remove powers from the county governments and yet, the Constitution has given them this power. If you look at Object 14 of this Bill - and I am very happy that the Committee has made these observations and amendments - even on the face of it, out of the six or seven people in this thing we are calling the Primary Health Care Advisory Council, those of us who have not been here for a long time, except Sen. Kinyua, Sen. Cheruiyot and Sen. (Dr) Lelegwe--- When they hear about an advisory council, it is that advisory council that arrested Sen. (Dr) Lelegwe when he was coming to this House. I am referring to the National Security Advisory Council; a jargon that does not exist in law, but some people just want to form something and keep power to themselves. Sen. Kinyua here was hunted like a gazelle in the last Parliament because they did not want him to come to Parliament. Then, we want to form another thing here that we are calling the National Primary Health Care Advisory Council, and Sen. (Dr) Lelegwe, Sen. Kinyua and Sen. Cheruiyot are here to support. We are not happy. You know, a leader from the Opposition once said that the Government eats its own children. Sen. Cheruiyot at that time said that the National Advisory Council is not a creation of law, just the same way that this thing should not be a creation of law. Why are we taking so much power to the national Government and this is---"
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