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    "speaker_name": "The Member for Taveta",
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    "content": "(Hon. (Dr.) Shaaban): Thank you, hon. Deputy Speaker. I want to add my voice to congratulating you for being elected our Deputy Speaker. It was a well deserved victory. I also want to add my voice to congratulating His Excellency the President on the well thought out Address during the inauguration of this august House. Our President, who has shown that he would want to see equality in this country, tried his best when he was the Minister for Finance. I will take my colleagues down the memory lane. He was able to provide money for hiring teachers equally in all the constituencies. He was also able to hire nurses for all the constituencies in this country equally. There was fish farming introduced in all constituencies equally. There were fresh produce markets introduced in all the constituencies. So, he is one President who really knows that we need equality in this country. Hon. Deputy Speaker, I want to point out a few issues. One, Kenyans are not used to innovative ways of raising funds, and that is why when the fund for sports, art and entertainment was well thought out by the President and introduced in this House quite a number of hon. Members wondered how it would work. This is one way in which the Jubilee Government intends to carry out certain things. There are issues that we have to take charge of as Kenyans. We should not be wholly dependent on the Government. We need to participate as Kenyans. One fund that can be established through this means is on the HIV/AIDS; it can be done through innovative ways of raising money. I would like to inform my colleagues that Kenya is a beneficiary of money that has been collected from the French Airlines. Our children are given ARVs using the fund from the French Airlines. I am looking forward to seeing the Cabinet Secretary concerned coming up with innovative ways of collecting some little money, say from our airlines and mobile users. We are all mobile phone users and it does not hurt us if we all contribute, say 50 cents, in a day towards this fund. This is because the donors’ kitty is dwindling and we need funding for our HIV/AIDS patients. This has been done elsewhere. In Zimbabwe, they are able to supply ARVs to their patients quite easily. They collect money through these innovative ways I have talked about. Hon. Deputy Speaker, maternity healthcare is a reality. Most people expected this to be done overnight. The President has been talking about his first 100 days in office. He was inaugurated just recently. He was sworn in on 16th April, 2013. We are hardly two weeks from the time he was sworn in. I know this is doable. We have been able in the former Government--- NHIF has been used to roll out a medical cover for our civil servants and now it should cover the loop concerning expectant women plus their families. This is going to be a reality. It is doable. We have slightly over one million women who are in their productive age, and so they should be able to utilize this with their families. This way we will be able to roll out the social health protection facilities. On the tourism sector, I would like to congratulate the President for talking about the issue of increasing the number of tourists who have been visiting our country. He said that we"
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