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    "id": 1502444,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Migori County, Independent",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Fatuma Mohamed",
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    "content": "I am in support of the Social Health Authority (SHA), which has now been renamed to Taifa Care and the Social Health Insurance Fund (SHIF). It does not matter whatever the name is it renamed to because whatever name it is, if you give it to a flower, it would still smell the same. That health cover is going to help wananchi . Personally, I am being deducted Ksh27,000 from my salary which goes towards that health cover. Any citizen with a sober mind cannot say that idea is not noble. After all, majority of us are not working. The few of us who are working, we are telling the President to continue deducting the money to enable the likes of Wanjiku, Atieno and Amina to get the health cover that will work for them. I support that system. I also support the idea that truly, the dollar rate has gone down. I am a witness. I bought a few things in January last year and, by the time I was paying, I really cursed the President. Little did I know that he was working on it. I really wish I had postponed to buy my stuff to now because the shilling is shining at the moment. I appreciate the fact that the dollar is now at an affordable rate that makes even food stuff go down, and businesses are workable for us. Hon. Temporary Speaker, I am also in support of the security system that the President was talking about. Our girls and women are now being threatened by those unnecessary deaths that are occurring in the country. I also want to urge the churches that this is where you are needed the most; and I am begging the churches and our religious leaders to concentrate on godly affairs. I agree that it is your responsibility to check on the Government and the leadership of this country, but look at our girls who are being killed every day. What do you do on Sunday when they come? What do you teach them when they come? In our mosques, what do we tell our girls when they come for prayers? Do we tell them that the Government cannot protect them when they enter a lodging with the wrong man; that the Government will only catch the person after he has killed them; and that the President will not pay their families any money or give them their lives back? It is the responsibility of us the parents and the churches because they are supposed to give direction. As leaders, there is very little we can do other than speak about it in public barazas . What will I do if Fatuma decided to walk in with a wrong man in a wrong place at night? My dear girls who are in school and my dear parents who are out there, that responsibility is yours. The Government's responsibility is limited - other than to give a speech and say that they will see what they can do about it. Hon. Temporary Speaker, the security in Kenya is generally not good. This is the effect of unemployment, and can only be solved when the dollar is down so that the investor can have confidence to come to Kenya and invest. The security for a person who wants to come and invest here should be guaranteed as well as the condition for doing business here, is made manageable. Again, there are too many licenses that are required for foreigners who want to do business in this country. There are so many middle men who make it very difficult for an investor to be licensed. I am requesting the President to check into this so that we can have an opportunity to get that investment so that the jobs can be created. I come from a sugar-cane farming area, which is Migori County, and I am very happy that South Nyanza Sugar Company Limited (Sony Sugar) will now be working again. This will create employment opportunities. Also, I believe our farmers will be very happy because for the first time, they will be getting their payment. I congratulate the President and I pray that Allah gives him more guidance, and people who guide him to do the right thing than those who just criticize him. Thanks to God one person... Can I finish my statement, Hon. Temporary Speaker?"
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