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    "id": 1479050,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Bumula, DAP-K",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Wanami Wamboka",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Deputy Speaker. We just want to interrogate the Statement. I have a few concerns. First, as a National Assembly, we should sit back and understand what is going on. I am seated with some Members of the Departmental Committee on Health, and they are expressing dissatisfaction with what is going on. Let me highlight a few fundamental issues about such a thing. I do not understand how such a programme can go on without public participation. This is a House of rules; we enact laws and we are supposed to follow them. Secondly, the greatest system, the most sophisticated like that of the Kenya Revenue Authority (KRA) are not as expensive. I have never heard of a system that costs Ksh104 billion. I am told that the platform that NHIF ran on only needed Ksh700 million to be upgraded. A whopping Ksh104 billion is expensive. We must also understand that these people did single sourcing. The government went for single-sourcing for such a large amount of money. We cannot allow this to go on in this country. We are saying that they should take a step back and listen to what Kenyans are saying. We cannot take all the important infrastructure of this government from one foreigner called Adani. We cannot. We cannot give him the airport; we cannot give him Kenya Electricity Transmission Company (KETRACO) and we cannot give him our health system. It is going to collapse. Lastly, I have read and interrogated this Statement very well. The benefits that NHIF was giving were superior to those this system is going to give. I beseech this National Assembly that when the country is headed in the wrong direction, we must say no. Let us step back and listen. This is a bad thing. It is causing damage to our country. We will not have a country at the end of the day. Let the Hon. Chairman of the Committee sit back, go, and follow processes. A contract of Ksh104 billion cannot be awarded by single sourcing. We cannot. The eating is just too much. We should not allow this eating and looting in this country. Thank you, Hon. Deputy Speaker."
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