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    "speaker_name": "Sen. (Dr.) Khalwale",
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        "legal_name": "Bonny Khalwale",
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    "content": "Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I rise under Standing Order No.222 to present a Petition on behalf of a group of citizens of the Republic of Kenya who are duly registered voters, who pay taxes and belong to the group of healthcare providers in this Republic. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, the Petitioners wish to draw the attention of this Senate to the fact that they are aware that the President issued an executive order on devolution to the effect that all the functions of devolution would commence on 1st July, 2013. The petitioners wish to assure this Senate that they support devolution. However, they oppose the rushed process of transferring to the county governments such important functions as personnel emoluments of clinical officers. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, they want to reiterate that, whereas they support devolution, and especially of certain functions in the health sector, for which the devolved governments might be ready at the moment such as utilization for infrastructure development, procurement of equipment and supplies, utilization of funds raised through cost-sharing and certain human resource functions such as staffing, internal transfers of clinical officers within the county and settlement of disciplinary cases affecting clinical officers working within those counties---- Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, they would like---"
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