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    "id": 1521391,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1521391/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Busia County, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Catherine Omanyo",
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    "content": "of anything. We will go there and ask, \"So and so, agent number this or broker firm this came to us, and we got insured by your body, and this is what has happened\". It will be easier to track when anything happens if they have records or data of every professional insurance person. They will see what to do if you were conned or given a particular insurance. What happens in Kenya today? Many people have gone into villages and towns where people like bodaboda operators pay. However, there is no compensation when they get an accident. They go to Court only to find out they have been played and conned. They have nobody or institutions to run to and report to. As a nation, we have lost a lot in the hands of some people. Let me use maybe the harsh word \"con man\" or \"con woman\" on these people. They came in the name of an insurance firm but did not mean it. They just took the money. Also, some of these firms ensure they do not compensate, knowing they cannot be taken anywhere. It is as if they make sure they do not pay according to how they promise. If a teacher misbehaved and I went to the Teachers Service Commission (TSC), TSC would know what to do to that teacher. I will go to the Law Society of Kenya (LSK), which will handle any lawyer who conned me or did not purchase what I wanted. Maybe I trusted him and gave him the money that he ate, and LSK would punish such lawyers. If I go to the Nursing Council of Kenya, they are orderly. Which body regulates insurance? Which body do I go to and say a certain broker or agent took my money, I got an accident, and I have not been paid to date? The long bureaucracy in courts makes complainants tired and give up on the way. That makes many people not trust the insurance, which remains for the upper class only. People in the upper class in Kenya are very few. Maybe only 10 per cent of Kenya's insurance economy goes to the right and few trusted ones. I want an institution or body that looks like the LSK but is an insurance body; it looks like TSC, but it is an insurance body, a body that can give certificates to all agents that represent various insurance institutions. We can trust insurance, do more, and save lives if they come up with that certificate. We cannot just deposit or keep giving to a place resembling a bottomless pit. As they say in Kiswahili : Kiendacho kwa mganga hakirudi . It is a beautiful idea, but what do we do when we feel conned? Thank you."
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