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    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Dr.) Simiyu",
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        "legal_name": "David Eseli Simiyu",
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    "content": "Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. The Mover of the Motion mentioned that her history on the Committee on Implementation is rather scanty. The Committee on Implementation was first set up during the one-party state. The first Chairperson of that Committee was Martin Shikuku. Before the Committee could even start working, he found himself in detention and the Committee remained in the Standing Orders, but was never reconstituted again. After that, it died a natural death. After that, in the last Parliament we moved through Speaker Marende that we bring back the Committee on Implementation. In fact, the first Chairman of the Committee on Implementation was Hon. Mwiru. I recall that, at that time, I brought a Motion to this Parliament to insist that students in tertiary institutions like technical training institutes, polytechnics and medical training colleges (MTCs) should be entitled to loans from the Higher Education Loans Board (HELB). Indeed, just after that, the current Deputy President (DP) was then made the Minister for Higher Education, Science and Technology. Hon. Mwiru’s Committee followed it up with him. Lo and behold, he implemented it immediately. Up to now, those students are still benefitting. The DP then went ahead to look at how to expand technical training in this country, something which is still running up to now. The Committee on Implementation is not a small Committee. It is a very important Committee. With the Speaker’s guidance, you will be able to deliver much better. I have heard the Vice-Chairperson mention that they are implementing something on identity cards (IDs). No, they are not. Huduma Centres are not covering the whole country. Take a county like Bungoma where you might have a Huduma Centre at the district headquarters. Do you expect all the youngsters in that county to go to that Huduma Centre? It is not possible. We need a different look at that. I would have expected you to look at it that way. The issue of health is very critical. The Departmental Committee on Health took a lot of time soon after devolution was implemented to look at what was happening and brought a Report to this House - which was debated and passed - as to how to go about correcting the problem without reversing devolution as the governors would like to say. The governors right now are telling untruths - that we want to reverse devolution of health. What we want to do is to expand the national Government’s reach. The national Government is supposed to give national referral services. It does not say it is restricted to Kenyatta National Hospital (KNH) and Moi Teaching and Referral Hospital (MTRH) alone. They are supposed to give referral services to all Kenyans equitably - as the Constitution demands. That is why we were saying that some of those hospitals should be taken over as national referral centres. That was in the report. The Cabinet Secretary has acted unconstitutionally and never brought a report to tell us what he has done about the Committee Report that was adopted by the House. I would have expected the Committee on Implementation to really take the Minister to task for acting unconstitutionally by not bringing a report to this House relating to that particular Report of the Committee, which they put a lot of work into. We are witnessing the health sector breaking down while the people are playing media games and telling us that the health sector is okay. We know very well that it is not okay. It might be okay in a few places but not everywhere - not even in half of this country. This is a very important matter which I feel the Committee should have looked into more seriously. This was a 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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