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    "id": 700425,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Kipyegon",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Johana Ngeno Kipyegon",
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    "content": "government has upgraded any of the dispensaries to increase the number of health centres to two. You can imagine a whole constituency with a population of over 100,000 people. We do not even have a sub-county hospital. The only health facilities we have are dispensaries. Therefore, getting these particular forms filled in is difficult. That is why I think it is prudent for the State to ensure that they make it possible for w ananchi to access these services. This is because these are services that you do not readily access when you need them. They are services which circumstances force you to seek. Just like other countries, Kenya is aspiring to join the Second World. Of course, we are in the Third World. Kenya is emerging as one of the fastest growing economies in this region. We are almost attaining a Second World status. The only thing that is hampering this country is corruption. If this country had gone the Magufuli way, especially given that Kenyans are very hardworking people, we would have attained a First World status. People in the First World countries enjoy free medical care and other essential services. I must congratulate one of the county governors of this country although he has so many political wars to fight. It is the only county where a governor has managed to give people aged 65 years and above free NHIF medical cover. They have also managed to give people in the same age group cash transfers. It is only the Governor of Bomet County who has achieved that in the whole country. Although he has so many wars, I must give credit where it is due. What he has done is an example that other county governors in this country should emulate so that both men and women aged 65 years can access free NHIF medical cover. The NHIF medical cover costs only Kshs2,500 per family. At times it goes to as low as Kshs1,500. That is not something that this country cannot afford. This country can afford to lose billions of shillings every year through corruption. Most of the projects that are being undertaken cost billions of shillings. Every Government project worth Kshs10 billion loses about Kshs3 billion through corruption – a sufficient amount to purchase NHIF medical cover for our elders who are 65 years old and above to enable them access medical care. If you go to private hospitals, at times you get a bill of Kshs300,000. These are poor people. They do not have any earnings. I wish this country could take the right direction so that we can take care of our citizens, on whose backs we ride. We demand that they vote for us by making them to go to polling stations to vote in a new government, Members of Parliament and governors after every five years. Why should we not reward them with things like free NHIF medical cover and make P3 Forms readily available, and enabling them to easily acquire national IDs, birth certificates and death certificates, when they require them? Why do we not enable students who are due to travel abroad for further studies to easily acquire passports? Why do we normally charge them Kshs4,000 as if they belong to the working class of our society? You can even charge us Kshs100,000 as Members of Parliament since we are working. Why charge a student who wants to travel abroad Kshs4,000 passport processing fee? What the President was trying to say yesterday, although he said it in a different way, is that corruption is manifested in the Civil Service. Where this money gets lost is not in the private sector. You have never heard of any bank ----"
}