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"speaker_name": "Suna East, ODM",
"speaker_title": "Hon. Junet Mohamed",
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"content": "That is the first place visitors interact with this country. You land at the airport and do not know whether you landed at Kisumu International Airport or a bus park. Wilson Airport is better of late because it is smaller and the traffic is smaller. Things are bad at the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport, and you cannot tell me the Government is supposed to fix everything. Yes, they have to do their work; they can fix what they can, but look at the standards and what is happening globally. Look at how the PPP has transformed many countries. If you go to Turkey, there is a completely new airport, bigger than Migori City, built through a Public- Private Partnership. We want to be the hub of this region. Look at what is happening in Ethiopia, yet our minds are fixated on issues that we think are against us; we only think of who is doing this and that. I may not vote for Adani, but I want to say on the Floor of this House that for those of us who are against him, let us now give alternatives on how we can improve our airport. We cannot be saying Adani was bad without giving any alternative. Hon. Speaker, I want to give a very good example. The Expressway we are enjoying today came through PPP. How would we be accessing our airport if we had not contracted them? Today, unlike before, you can take less than ten minutes to get to the airport. We must ask ourselves the hard questions. We cannot do politics at the expense of killing the country. The Nairobi Expressway is a good example of a PPP project. It might have been done expensively, but it serves the purpose it was meant for. Kenyans who can afford to pay for the service of the Expressway would ask how they can access it from whichever point they are in, be it from the Southern Bypass or Thika Super Highway. This is because it has made life easy. That is what PPP does; it makes lives better. Leader of the Majority Party, I hope and pray that transparency will be adhered to in the subsequent decision that is going to be made concerning this issue. We need to get the next PPP; this time, we want Kenyans to be taken on board. We want Kenyans to be carried on board through transparency and accountability. Hon. Speaker, the second issue I noted in the Speech is SHIF and SHA. It is a brilliant and good idea for us to transform the health sector of this country because Universal Health Care has been in all our manifestos. It is a constitutional right that every Kenyan must get. However, the ideas and laws passed here are very good because they underpin universal health are. The way it has been rolled out is not right because many Kenyans are not aware of the transfer from the NHIF to SHA. Hon. Speaker, when the IEBC conducts mass voter registration, it does a lot of campaigns in the media, print media, and radio. You will hear it asking people, “Je,umejiandikisha ?\" However, we have not heard anyone talk about SHIF or SHA. We need to do a serious campaign so that Kenyans can know that a new programme called SHA is taking over the NHIF programmes. On that front, we can do better. Kenyans need to be made aware of the benefits of SHA. I was one of the Members who participated in making these laws. If they are correctly implemented, they will solve many problems concerning our healthcare. We, however, need more awareness so that more Kenyans can get an opportunity to learn that there is a new programme taking effect in the country. Hon. Speaker, the President raised an issue concerning the Conflict of Interest Bill. If you read the Bill, you will think that the people who published it did so to deal with Members of Parliament. It is like the Bill was meant to target the Members of Parliament and no other Kenyans like those holding offices like the cabinet, principal secretaries, and parastatal heads. It was purely about Members of Parliament. The thing must be put into a broader perspective. Everyone holding an office must be part and parcel of that Conflict of Interest Bill. Members of Parliament are not the only ones doing business in Kenya. We have many Kenyans in high offices. So, if you target a certain segment of the Kenyan leadership, it has to revolt. That is why the Senate made 20 amendments to the Bill and is now in the Mediation Committee."
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