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    "id": 364818,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. ole Kenta",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Richard Moitalel ole Kenta",
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    "content": "Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, from the outset, I would like to thank you for giving me this opportunity. This is a very important Motion and I would like to thank the Mover thereof. It is a constitutional right for every citizen to access health facilities, treatment and all those things that pertain to it. It is also the constitutional obligation of the Government to ensure that the citizen accesses facilities. However, it is a shame that 50 years on, we are unable to take care of our health facilities or sector because of the negligence of the governments that were there before because I would say we are the best trainers of people who serve other countries. If you go to America today, the UK or our neighbouring countries like South Sudan, our trained personnel have benefited them because we have not been able to take care of these important personnel. The pertinent issue is that the Ministry concerned must allocate resources where it matters most because if we do not train these people or if we train them and we do not employ them, then we would have done zero work. The most important thing is that money must be poured into the personnel aspect of the Ministry’s activities. We must also ensure that once these people are employed, they must adhere to the contractual obligations that they entered into because you cannot train this number of people and they just run away. So we must ensure that they are not given the right to leave the country before they have done what they are supposed to do, otherwise we would be wasting a lot of our resources. The other thing is that we must look at progressive betterment of emoluments because they leave because they earn peanuts here. They do not have facilities like housing and lack many basic necessities which they find elsewhere. Unless we take care of their welfare from housing and facilities in hospitals, we cannot say they should be there. So, we must put our money there because as we all know, a lot of our resources are embezzled and once we tighten the nuts of corruption or of the gravy train, then I am sure we will have resources to train these people and ensure that they are employed. Lastly, we must ensure that our infrastructure is upgraded because you will find that many people due to lack of these facilities do not go to hospital because roads are"
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