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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Sang",
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        "legal_name": "Leonard Kipkosgei Sang",
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    "content": "Thank you, hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. My name is hon. Leonard Sang, and not Dawanol. I do not know how the Chair came up with that name. I want to commend the President for the elaborate Address we listened to last week when he presented it to Parliament. I want to say that the Address was so elaborate. It touched on some few areas that will help improve a good number of things in this country. On security, he actually discussed about security within the country and outside. Working on police to citizen ratio might improve our security. I know we have some pockets of insecurity almost everywhere in the country, starting from the Coast to Eastleigh; I saw some of it in Kapsabet. I am told that there is an athlete and a pastor who were kidnapped a few hours ago. I know when we improve police to citizen ratio, we will improve our security. I want to commend the President for investing so much in issues of security; our improved security will make us improve our day-to-day lives. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I also want to commend him for ensuring that police officers wherever they are and other disciplined forces are covered by insurance. I know insurance will improve their morale. When morale is improved, they will work extra-hard to ensure that security of our people is improved. I also want to thank him so much because of ensuring that our police officers reside in good houses and have vehicles. I know this will improve our security, including CCTV coverage and so on. On the cash transfer, I also want to commend the President for ensuring that we have at least Kshs.1 billion for transfer to cushion the poor, especially the orphans, the severely disabled and the elderly. Whenever we go home, these are some of the people who give us challenges. I want to thank the President for ensuring that these people are actually cushioned against poverty. With regard to infrastructure, I also want to commend him. In addition to other things, he talked about infrastructure and I want to commend him for the improvement or upgrading, of our roads to bitumen standard. When the President talked about over 100,000 kilometres of road improved to bitumen standard in this country, I knew I would also benefit in the process. In my constituency, there are some roads which have stalled. I know that in a short while, the Sotik-Cheborgei–Roret Road will be improved; also the road from Litein to Cheborgei and Kimulot will be improved. On the issue of hospitals, I want to commend the doctors who are helping the child who was shot in a Likoni church attack. I know the consultants, nurses and the rest have done a very good job. On the issue of hospitals, Dr. Eseli discussed them so well. With regard to devolution, I know devolution of health services was supposed to take about three years to allow us improve on hospitals structures and management. Unfortunately, healthcare services were precipitately devolved, and we have a lot of issues in hospitals. I know that in a few years to come, we are going to come up with structures that will ensure that our hospitals are managed well, and we will have our specialized officers everywhere helping our people access healthcare. The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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