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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Suba North, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Millie Odhiambo-Mabona",
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    "content": "You have spoken to a lot of issues that Kenyans go through that relate to the insurance industry. This Bill does not cover a lot of issues that you spoke to. It will be nice if you bring amendments for them to be covered, especially on discriminating against women who are having children and you treat child burp as though it is a worse disease than some of the diseases that are covered. It is not even a disease. If you can consider proposing an amendment, it will be very good. Maternity is a noble thing. It should not be a thing that people criminalise or discriminate. Hon. Temporary Speaker, I will be very brief. Members have spoken a lot to this Bill. It seeks to ensure prompt payments, accountability by those who insure and enhance punitive measures where they evade their responsibility. Many amendments that come before this House are borne out of frustration not only because there is a poor legislative framework but also because of an implementation framework. If the law that is there now is properly implemented, then there may not have been any need to bring this amendment. Because we have enhanced a culture of impunity, then people think they can get away with anything. I do not know how we will go about this. We need to ensure that when we pass laws in this country, they are enforced. We can also pass this Bill, and then the insurance agencies fail to do what we are urging them to do like depositing the money, then we do not even punish them. The greatest thing that we need to do is to make sure there is punishment over this. I will pick very briefly one of the things that Hon. Osoro has mentioned and leave it at that. The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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