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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Ogolla",
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        "legal_name": "Gideon Ochanda Ogolla",
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    "content": "Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I do not know whether I will move this “informal House” away from my front. Definitely, there is quite a bit of logic in terms of what has been brought out. The Bill is fairly reactionary. To the extent it tries to respond to the operational failures that are evident in the country, particularly in the health sector, it is predominantly ignoring very serious aspects of the Constitution. I want to believe that if we go at this rate, if we cannot handle it in the House, there are chances that it is going to be challenged in a court of law like some of the Bills that we have had before. Our Constitution generally provides for what needs to happen. Many things did not happen the way they were supposed to happen. First, we did not need to have global transfer of functions the way we did in the first six months. That was the first problem that we had as a country. Secondly, there needed to be assessment of capacities before a function is transferred. If we are transferring a health function to a county government, the question would be: Are they ready? Nobody did this! We transferred functions to county governments that were not ready to 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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