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    "id": 719192,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Ochieng",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "David Ouma Ochieng'",
        "slug": "david-ouma-ochieng"
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    "content": "Thank you so much, Hon. Deputy Speaker. I support this Petition. While seated here, I have been asking myself when I heard my colleagues saying this Petition is at the wrong place: If we do not help sort out this matter, who will? If Parliament does not deal with this matter, who will if all the other bodies have seemingly failed? It is now 60 days since this began and whether you want to be legalistic or to absolve somebody, this country must find the solution to the doctors’ strike. We can find money for so many things. We, as a country, can find money for elections, trips and to build a new building in Parliament, but you cannot find money to pay doctors. It is a shame. We are in a month of budgeting. Someone asked the role of the National Assembly in this matter. This is the year we are doing a budget. This Parliament can make provisions. Someone is saying that there is nothing you can do on this problem and that it is not the role of Parliament. Parliament now allocates money and under the discussion that we are going to have under the Division of Revenue Bill, we, as Parliament, have the duty to ensure that the ministries concerned have enough money to sort out doctors. We cannot keep doing this to our people. You hear this attitude of “watado?” everywhere. The CS is asking: “ Watafanya? ” because as a country, we have allowed everything else to just happen. We have become immune. It is a shame that this Parliament can sit and it has been sitting for the last two months now. We have had special sittings and we discuss elections and not the lives of Kenyans. Shortly, I am going to be talking about a Motion that I intend to move this afternoon. Hon. Deputy Speaker, this Parliament is winding up. We need to wind up on a better note by telling Kenyans that we care for their interest. Thank you."
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