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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Maanzo",
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        "legal_name": "Maanzo Daniel Kitonga",
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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, you cannot just wake up and vaccinate human beings or vaccinate animals without scientific advice. For that matter, there has been an outcry and many farmers did not cooperate. You cannot also vaccinate by force; that you force every farmer. You persuade, you give reasons and the responsible professional bodies must completely advise them. Therefore, I do support that statement. On the statement sought by Sen. Kavindu, the Senator for Machakos, the SHA and SHIF issues have brought a lot of suffering to our people. Previously, we had the National Health Insurance Fund (NHIF). All those complaints are not without reason. There are questions as to private individuals running public money. There are issues of tendering processes, of which there is a law which controls that in this country. There is an issue of a consortium awarded and the cost of the award. Also, when you compare to what happened to the NHIF, we want to say that the thieves of NHIF are known and the criminals in NHIF are known. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, what has the Government done to prosecute and recover monies stolen through the NHIF? The reason the Government has done nothing is because the people who did that were friendly to it and some of them are now in SHA and SHIF. Therefore, there is a problem if the current Government is totally unable to sort this out. Kenyans can sort it out in the elections because at that time, Kenyans make decisions as to how they want to be governed. There are issues of signatories to the account and the contract agreement explaining why there is transfer of funds to an escrow account on a daily or a weekly basis. - The monies are raised from the public and put away outside the country. Additionally, in the contract agreement, there is Kshs7 billion set aside for training. Who are you supporting and who are you training? How did you make that assessment that you need Kshs7 billion to train? What are you training for because the staff who used to operate NHIF are the same staff who are employed? Have you employed new members of staff? Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, this whole matter is very controversial. There is need for the Cabinet Secretary in charge of health to come and highlight all these things to the public, so that the public can stop suffering. We, as Members, are paid that Kshs33,000 every month to go and assist our constituents. We still have to go to back to our pockets to get people released from hospitals. The matter of SHA and SHIF should be sorted out in the fastest time possible. Although I do not have a PhD in matters relating to animal husbandry, it is important that Kenyans be explained properly that simple concept, so that they can do a buy-in. There must be public participation before we do a massive vaccination to animals."
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