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    "id": 1459836,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Alego Usonga, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Samuel Atandi",
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    "content": " Thank you very much, Hon. Temporary Speaker. Let me join the Chair of the Committee in supporting the Motion on the appointment of Dr. Patrick Omwanda Amoth to the position of Director-General of Health. I declare that, that is somebody I have known for many years. He is my constituent. I have known him as a long-serving civil servant from the days he left university. Dr. Amoth was, at one time, in charge of the Kiambu District Hospital before devolution. Those days we used to take our patients to the Kiambu District Hospital because of how he had transformed the hospital and made it a centre of excellence in that region. During the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, Dr Amoth was in charge of giving technical advice to the Government on matters related to the pandemic. He performed so well that Kenyans demanded that he be confirmed as Director-General of Health. However, that did not happen. Thereafter, Dr. Amoth was elected the Vice-President of the Executive Committee of the World Health Organisation (WHO). He served in that position for about three years, while still acting as the Director-General of Health. I am saying this because I was involved in lobbying for Dr. Amoth to be confirmed into that position during the former regime. I met the former Cabinet Secretary for Health Mr. Mutahi Kagwe severally to persuade him to confirm Dr. Amoth into the position. That time, Kenyans were demanding that Dr. Amoth be confirmed. The answer I got from Mr. Kagwe will surprise you because he told me that Dr. Amoth was too old to occupy that position."
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