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    "id": 1473310,
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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Cheruiyot",
    "speaker_title": "The Senate Majority Leader",
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        "legal_name": "Aaron Kipkirui Cheruiyot",
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    "content": "Social Health Insurance Fund (SHIF) and transiting the National Health Insurance Fund (NHIF). I am very clear in my mind that this country does not need any new agency or institution. We can only make better that which we have. If we are creating a new authority, it is on the understanding and the premise that there are other institutions that we are either winding up completely or transitioning its people and operations into the new agency. T This is to ensure that you do not end up with a continuous recurring bill of close to a trillion Kenyan shillings, by just paying a few Government workers while a million others continue to languish in poverty for lack of opportunity because you are not able to manage. We must make Government lean and efficient. Part of it is to look keenly and read through. In fact, I wish the Members of the National Cohesion, Equal Opportunity and Regional Integration Committee were part and parcel of us. We said it in the bipartisan Motion that we passed here when we had the challenges in June. Like somebody observed this afternoon, we had given our committees 30 days to look into the resolutions that were in that bipartisan Motion. I hope our committee’s chairpersons can soon start telling us how far they are in implementing the resolutions that this House had passed at that time. It will be a waste of the country's emotion and time, having spent the time we spent here speaking so candidly to each other, to only let them lie in the HANSARD. I expect each chairperson we tasked with the various responsibilities will begin reporting back to the Senate the actions they have taken as directed by that Motion when we spoke here in June. I was speaking to Clause 2 of the Bill. Madam Temporary Speaker, Clause 3 of the Bill contains provisions on dealing with the manner in which disasters may be classified and establishment of the disaster electric information system. These are ways which are able to detect disaster and the risk that is available. Technology on ways which can point out and signal people way ahead of time is available worldwide, including here in Kenya. If we had such detection mechanism systems, we would have sent early warnings to the people that were victims of floods in April this year and informed them to move away from those floods and save life. Clause 4 contains the provisions on institutional framework at the county level. This is important. I am happy about this because it speaks to the growth of the Senate as a legislature and the office of the drafters of this legislation, that there is an appreciation in the country that there are two levels of Government. This was a rare occurrence in the 12th Parliament. Many times, we would pass legislation and leave it to fight. Our understanding and appreciation of devolution then was that you either do a silo law for the national Government and one for county governments. However, this interdependence and coordination of the two levels of Government is a welcome improvement. Clause 4 speaks to the issue of setting up of this institution at the county level, where the risk management committees act as a focal point for coordination of disaster The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Director, Hansard and AudioServices, Senate."
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