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    "id": 397786,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Kindiki",
    "speaker_title": "The Senate Majority Leader",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Kithure Kindiki",
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    "content": " Madam Temporary Speaker, I do not have the powers to confer. I wish I had. I just recommended and for the benefit of the Senator from Mombasa, my brother, Sen. Hassan, Honorary Degrees are conferred by university communities upon recommendation by the public. I think we should start linking up with universities like the University of Nairobi to recommend Kenyans. It does not have to be a politician. However, thank you for helping me respond to that point of order. The benefits of the ICT in governance are huge. The benefits of ICT in revenue collection and management are demonstrable. I will use one example to demonstrate what this Motion can do if implemented. When our Committee on Health, Labour and Social Welfare visited the counties during the recess – this is commendable because I have received a lot of positive feedback that projects the Senate very well – we found out that most of our health sectors are stocking drugs which are not supposed to be there. Some drugs which are supposed to be in some health centres are not there. When this came to the fore, we asked ourselves why it was happening and we discovered that the main problem is that once our health facilities receive these drugs, there is no way that the Director of Medical Services and other administrators in the health sector can ascertain or match the requirements that health centres have at any one given time. They cannot also supervise how the drugs are utilised. So, if we had this kind of connectivity, the Cabinet Secretary for Health would see that a health centre in Nyaribari Chache has this amount of drugs and requires a certain amount of the same drug. He does not have to wait for the nurse to fill a requisition form. They can track the usage of medicine using their computers. This is an important contribution because it will improve governance. It will also improve healthcare, by way of example. The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposes only. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate."
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