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    "id": 1501732,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Lagdera, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Abdikadir Mohamed",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker, for giving me the opportunity to contribute to the debate on the President’s Address to Parliament. The President did well to cancel the Adani deals. But our problem, as a country, is that we can neither raise enough internal revenue nor borrow huge loans to develop. So, if we need development, PPPs is the right way to go, although Kenyans are always against direct procurement and the privately initiated proposals. They always think that whenever something is privately initiated, then somebody somewhere is pushing for it so that he can gain. So, PPPs is the right way to go if we cannot borrow any more loans or raise our internal revenue. There is no other way that we can develop. On the issue of Taifa Care that the President talked about, the problem is that transition has been hurriedly done. This can be seen where even the former staff of the NHIF are still working with Taifa Care yet they have already been laid off. I have never seen an organisation on transition whose staff have been laid off yet the same staff are told to work for the same organisation. The staff are not motivated because they have already been laid off. Currently, they are under the Public Service Commission. They neither work for the NHIF nor SHA yet they are used to register members. So, how will they be motivated yet they have been laid off? They are no longer staff, but they work for the organisation. I think that was hurriedly done. The Government should look into the welfare of those staff. About 1,200 NHIF staff are good. I have worked there before and I can confirm that they are very good, although a few of them have problems. So, let them deal with the few, but transition the good staff to SHA without coercion. Failure to do so, they will lock out all the staff. So, what will we be doing? The SHA is good, but transition has been mishandled such that they do not have staff and are using the ones they laid off. Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker. I support the President's Address."
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