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    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Ms.) Cheruiyot",
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        "legal_name": "Gladwell Jesire Cheruiyot",
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    "content": "Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I am delighted to be noted today and given a chance. I am one of the people who have been very frustrated trying to speak in this House and not being able to. I also want to request that if it is possible, the Speaker’s Panel should check and consider those people who do not get a chance to speak in the House rather than having the same people speaking every day, whereas you sit for many hours and leave the House without contributing. I also wanted to talk about the issues the Members have raised on the people we are approving in this House. It looks like many of us are not happy with how these Principal Secretaries, Cabinet Secretaries or State officers who are appointed treat Members thereafter. It is also prudent for us to present complaints thereafter, if they are true, so that we discuss them in the House rather than complaining silently. On today’s Motion on the appointment of the PS for the State Department for Health, I am a Member of that Committee and that is why I was really pressed to talk. Tum has risen from a very low cadre in education. He has risen from being a certificate holder to a master’s degree holder. He has grown in this ministry. He has worked for the Ministry of Health for around 28 years. He is conversant with the terms and terminologies of health. I believe that having worked there, it would be very easy for us to talk to him and get to know what exactly health is all about. As somebody said, Kenyatta Hospital has been a problem and has appeared in newspapers every day on issues of security and others. I believe that he will improve it because he knows what is expected of him. For sure, if in this country we will get people who are conversant with the departments they head, it would be very important because delivery will be obvious. With those few remarks, I support the Motion that Mr. Tum be approved as the PS for State Department for Health."
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