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    "id": 1419040,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Cheruiyot",
    "speaker_title": "The Senate Majority Leader",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Aaron Kipkirui Cheruiyot",
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    "content": "There is nothing. How can you die from a poorly drafted agreement? I do not want to say what I said on this Floor another time and I was discussed in all Law Society of Kenya (LSK) forums. We have to be very keen in this discussion. We must also appreciate what the national Government is telling us. We appreciate the fact that we are still at a debt strain level. Where 70 per cent of our revenue collections never leave Harambee Avenue. They pay debt immediately after they are collected. For every Kshs100 that you collect in taxes, we are still paying Kshs70 to debt that we have already consumed as a country. We are only left with 30 per cent to compete all the things that we need to do. Pay salaries for the military, teachers, keep Parliament, Judiciary and the Executive running. Therefore, we are in a very difficult situation. I want to laud the Committee for taking the lead to call all these institutions together and try and make sense of this situation that we find ourselves in. It has gotten to a point where people are beginning to ask and they cannot distinguish anymore. You cannot sit comfortably and say, you come from the Minority or the Opposition side. They keep telling you that you are the leaders. That is the word that Kenyans use. All the ordinary kenyans know is that you are a leader. They expect that you have the platform and there is something that you can do about it. Therefore, I want to urge the Committee on Health not to relent. I know they have called for meetings two or three times. The Cabinet Secretary did not either turn up or one time the union officials had another separate meeting. They should not give up. This is something that we must resolve. This institution has the ability to resolve many of these questions save for maybe the monetary issues that stand between doctors and their return to work. There are basic issues that even we as a House, I am embarrassed that we have not been able to address for the last 10-plus years that we have been in this House. Take for example the issue of standardization of practice. It is not fair that what a doctor earns in Siaya is not similar to what they earn in Homa Bay just next door. The promotion manual and the human resource manual for one county differs from the other yet these are people who trained in the same institution for such an important profession. Therefore, Sen. Mandago and your Health Committee, immediately after you are done with resolving this issue of the strike, bring to the House at least a legislation or policy proposal that will ensure that we standardize practice issues across all our 47 counties, ensuring that our HR manuals; the leave days, promotion, what it takes, what level do you rise at after practicing for how many years, so that there is no competition at least at intra county level. There are certain counties where we are told that doctors would never wish or want to work there because of how they are being handled in those counties yet, because"
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