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    "id": 392761,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. G.G. Kariuki",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Godfrey Gitahi Kariuki",
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    "content": "Madam Temporary Speaker, I think sometimes we jump into things before a statement is completed. I am very experienced in this House and I was going to say exactly what my friend is saying. First of all, I congratulated them for making this kind of trip and bringing something to us that we are now debating. Now, what I was going to say – and I said it in part – is that this Committee appears to have just gone and they were not serious – if that is what I am being asked to explain – because I wanted to advise the Chair of this Committee that there is no hurry; that we do not need to get piece-meal reports like this one. We want a comprehensive report of all the 47 counties so that we can read, recommend and approve them; and then we can come up with a law. That Bill is now going to make all the reports effective, and whatever was intended will be accomplished at that time. You will agree me that that this recommendation is not going further than the Table of this House. But I want us to convert it into a law so that everybody will accept to deal with the matter according to the law. Now, Madam Temporary Speaker, we are told that Level Four Hospitals have now been devolved. As Sen. Mugo was saying here, we have to be absolutely careful when we are devolving some of these serious businesses. This thing has failed in the central Government; the supply of medicine has been a failure; most doctors do not want to go to rural areas, but we are not capable of forcing them to stay where they are supposed to stay, and most of them have taken a decision to go out of this country to do some other work where they will feel more accepted and respected. Because in this country, you just put a qualified doctor in one of my places called Ol Morani, where there are no roads and there is nothing; until on Friday, when he gets a matatu to bring him to town. This guy might not come back and, therefore, this is what we are saying."
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