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    "id": 666396,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/666396/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Ababu",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 108,
        "legal_name": "Ababu Tawfiq Pius Namwamba",
        "slug": "ababu-namwamba"
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    "content": "It makes you the greatest coward that ever walked the face of this earth. I do not believe any of us here is a coward. We must speak out. Many sectors that have been devolved, which in the wisdom of the drafters of the Constitution should have been performing a lot better than previously, are actually on their knees. The health sector demonstrates the failures of the managers of devolution in the first five years. Healthcare has literally collapsed in many parts of this country. The entire infrastructure of health care in Busia County has virtually collapsed, including Busia County Referral Hospital. That is a referral hospital that does not even have basics like a blood bank. Woe unto you if you are involved in an accident and you are rushed to the Busia County Referral Hospital, and you need emergency blood transfusion. There are health facilities which have collapsed, including Port Victoria Hospital in Port Victoria Town. I grew up enjoying services at that facility. We have instances where patients are not only fighting their illness, but they are also sleeping hungry. Those facilities are unable to provide the basic necessities. We have witnessed instances of strikes by health workers because of the mismanagement of that sector by the county governments. If some of us were not so strongly committed to devolution, we would have argued that some of those critical services, like healthcare, should be returned to the national Government. However, we believe in devolution. It can still work with better managers. We will speak against those ills. We will encourage better managers amongst us, for example, my brother from Rarieda, to rise and run for those positions and demonstrate that devolution can work with better managers."
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