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    "id": 1496727,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Laikipia North, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Sarah Korere",
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        "legal_name": "Sara Paulata Korere",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker. I want to thank my sister, Hon. Lilian Gogo, for bringing this Adjournment Motion. As other speakers have said, SHIF was well-intentioned. However, the trust deficit that it has brought about and lack of stakeholder engagement is wanting. I say so because in every county and constituency, we have Government officers up to the level of assistant chiefs. If all the administrators were called and educated about this insurance fund and given the requisite information… These people - assistant chiefs, chiefs, Assistant County Commissioners (ACCs), and Deputy County Commissioners (DCCs) are paid by the Government. You know, we cannot, depend on politicians who will politicise everything and want to seize the moment, even on things already passed in this House, just to paint how bad some things are because they think they are on the other side of the division. Hon. Temporary Speaker, as I stand here money in my payslip has been deducted and so for other civil servants. We feel the pain of the deductions, however, we really enjoy when our people get services. Every Member of Parliament here, I am sure every weekend is being called for Harambee, even when they know they are banned. You are being asked to contribute for a sick person. It is on humanitarian ground. You cannot start telling them Harambees were banned. Hon. Temporary Speaker, health is not a privilege to Kenyans. It is a basic human right. It should not be a luxury. We do not have the option of deciding whether Kenyans should have"
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