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    "id": 725603,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/725603/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Wetangula",
    "speaker_title": "The Senate Minority Leader",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 210,
        "legal_name": "Moses Masika Wetangula",
        "slug": "moses-wetangula"
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    "content": " Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I join my colleagues Sen. (Dr.) Zani and others who have spoken before me in voicing concern over the doctors’ continuing strike that has now been joined by lecturers of public universities. We are living in a country where the Government of the day has demonstrated how uncaring they are. The doctors have been on strike for almost three months now. We have had a conspiracy of silence from the Government of the day, absolute silence. Instead, they have taken public resources, military planes,t hey are flying from one corner of the country to the other, purporting to launch projects that will never see the light of the day. The cost of running around the country every day and corruption in this country would make the demands of the doctors a pittance. The amount of money stolen on the Standard Gauge Railway (SGR), Eurobond, National Youth Service (NYS), the amount of money misapplied through dubious procurement process, inflated pricing, both at the national and county levels would be more than enough to pay the doctors and the lecturers. We live in a country where as the Former Chief Justice, Dr. Willy Mutunga said, “We are running a bandit economy” We are in an economy where every Kenyan is so happy making money. No Kenyan is proud of earning money. The people who look after our lives, the doctors, when they ask for an increment which the Government committed itself to, never mind that the Collective Bargain Agreement (CBA) was signed by one, Mr. Mark Bor, the former Principal Secretary (PS) in the Kibaki-Raila Government. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, the most important thing is that governments have perpetual succession. Therefore, one PS signing a document binds successive PSs in the same Ministry. We are told that there is a PS in the Ministry of Health who is untouchable, extremely arrogant and has no time to even sit with the doctors and listen to them and has no time to sit with his own CS because he comes from the royal family and community. This kind of callous arrogance has to be checked in our country. The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposes only. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate"
}