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    "id": 430175,
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    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Eng.) Gumbo",
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        "legal_name": "Nicholas Gumbo",
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    "content": "Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I notice that the fourth pillar is talking about investing in quality health care. This is important. Healthy people produce more; that is given. Therefore, if we can invest in quality health care; for example, the free maternity programmes, if it can go hand-in-hand, it can be fine. We do not want to see where we are trying to make these services available, we still have problems, like we have problems of doctors being on strike. The attitude of our health care workers has not changed. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I was listening to a very unfortunate incident where a mother who was about to deliver in hospital in Nyeri, had the foetus drop onto the floor and died because the nurses were busy doing their own things in the next room. These sorts of things where we still have problems with change of attitude are very disturbing. I think these are going to frustrate, otherwise, very noble initiatives by the Government. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, as I conclude, I notice that the fifth pillar is talking about further entrenchment of devolution for better service delivery and enhanced economic development. I do not belong to the school of thought which believes that devolution is failing. I think we should learn to look at the bright side of devolution. Devolution is the future of this country. There is no doubt about that. We have had a few cases of some governors who, given unlimited room to operate, would resort to very archaic forms of despotism and even kleptocracy – things that are not right. Devolution is the promise for Kenya and I think it would help as a country if we did everything to make sure that devolution works in this country."
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