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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Wangari",
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        "legal_name": "Martha Wangari",
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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I join my colleagues in noting the work that harambees have done in this country right from our founding President who is like the father of harambees and the harambee spirit in this country. I am a beneficiary of harambees. Were it not for harambees, I would not have gone to high school. Therefore, I would not be here today. I thank Sen. (Prof.) Anyang’-Nyong’o for bringing this Bill in terms of regulating what is already in existence in the community. The specific issue that I support is the issue of transparency in harambees. However, I find it very difficult to accept that if I need to do a harambee, then I have to get a permit from some place or from a committee that has a whole vertical structure. If they do not like me, they will deny me the licence and I will have seven days to appeal. I am speaking on behalf of the very far flung areas in this country. Last Sunday, I had a harambee of a patient who is going through dialysis in a place called Miti Mingi in Gilgil, Nakuru. Every session of dialysis in Kenyatta National Hospital (KNH) costs Kshs8,000. This is expensive for someone who does not have a source of livelihood and lives very far. That person has to pay like Kshs300 to get to the road so as to access the road to Nakuru Town. I am assuming that the county headquarters will be the headquarters of the regulatory committee of harambees. Looking at those logistics, I find it very sad that we will put in place bottlenecks and bureaucracies to make sure that people can raise money. Of course, there are people who have abused the process and fundraised for things that are non-existent. Even we, as leaders, have fallen into the trap one time or the other. Someone can say that they are burying their grandmother. Tomorrow, they have something else. It actually happened to me just a while ago. Someone came to me with a photograph of a badly bandaged face and told me: “My son is in Nakuru Provincial General Hospital. He is almost dying. He is in a coma and we need to get him out.” I asked him, “What ward is your son admitted to?” That story changed completely and they started saying, “No, he was discharged yesterday. Now, he is at home.” After just a little investigation, I found that it was a fictitious story. 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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