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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Kibwana",
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        "legal_name": "Kibwana Kivutha",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir. I will echo my SG and invite you to UNITE's team. I am a proud member of UNITE'S health team and I sit in the steering committee. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, just give me a second to highlight on what UNITE focuses on. The key focus areas include universal healthcare, the intersection of public health and human rights, gender equity in health, and sustainable responses of emerging health crises. UNITE are policymakers, academics, and civil society. UNITE amplifies the voice of parliamentarians to advance global health and ensures inclusive, effective governance. One of UNITE'S meaningful steps is to strengthen partnerships across the region. Notably, the chapter initiated a collaboration with the University of Health and Allied Science in Ghana. Right now, they are in Kenya trying to collaborate and work with us to develop an academic programme and also global campaigns and public health awareness. I wish to thank Abdul Karim Ibrahim, who is the African Regional Coordinator of UNITE Parliamentarian's Network, for bringing us together. I was appointed and was only done an interview and within one day, I was sitting on the steering committee of UNITE. UNITE has taken me places, has initiated me to go to different countries. The other day I was appointed to go to Berlin to sit as a panellist in one in a forum I cannot clearly remember. That was during the time that we were going through impeachment, but I was unable to attend. However, I take pride and I welcome them. I also welcome the Members of Parliament from different countries. I tell them Kenya is a beautiful country and as much as they may see our debates here, they are quite healthy. At the end of the day, we remain good friends from both the opposition and the government side. I am sure they have enjoyed and, of course, benchmarked in all the other places that they have been to like in Makueni, Kenyatta National Hospital (KNH) and the rest of the places. I now know that they are going to the National Assembly. However, I would like to tell them that Kenya is the place to be and Kenya is a country to engage with."
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