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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Mohamed Diriye",
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        "legal_name": "Diriye Abdullahi Mohamed",
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    "content": "In fact, they have recruited nurses three times. Taking that health function that is already devolved is just mockery. So, I am pleading with my colleagues. This is a very serious matter. Right now you say we must return this thing, we will be back to square one. What are we going to debate? Taking back health functions which have already been taken up and the county governments are already working and doing well is not right. Remember we are already in the second year and if we talk about a three year phased programme, we are in the second year and only one year remains. If you bring back this thing, this is serious and I want hon. Members to be serious. We are in the second year and the third year is remaining. So, if we start this process again and if this Report is passed, it is going to give a lot of leeway and energy for health workers to demand that they are coming back to the national Government. It is going to be acrimonious and we are going to be in confusion, yet we have enough problems in this country. We are dealing with insecurity issues and many other challenges. So, health functions are already devolved. I am talking from experience; particularly in the marginalized counties like Mandera and Wajir, we have fully taken up the functions. The county governments have fully taken up the health functions and there is no way we are going to return unless we are kidding. I want the Chairperson of the Departmental Committee in charge of health because she came up with this Report to tell me what she had in mind because we are in the second year. We should have talked about this in the first year or even before we came to Parliament but right now you are talking of three years yet we are in the second year."
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