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    "id": 797313,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/797313/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. M.D. Duale",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 1377,
        "legal_name": "Mohamed Dahir Duale",
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    "content": "It is common knowledge that many people from Garissa, Wajir and Mandera are today in Nairobi, Mombasa, Namanga and other parts of this country. That migration is a result of the closure of the border for the last decade and will continue to the extent that, that place will be deserted. My appeal to His Excellency the President and the Departmental Committee on Administration and National Security is to reconsider the closure of the border. I am sure even the security of this nation will improve once the border is open because one of the issues that perpetuate insecurity is poverty. The Government of Kenya will also collect revenue. Concerning the issue of universal health coverage, we are targeting to cover 90 per cent of the population by the year 2022. However, in many parts of this country, the coverage which is being supported by some county governments is not going to help the universal health coverage. There is no reason why governors enroll those who are already sick to the National Hospital Insurance Fund. Those patients will deplete the NHIF resources. A true healthcare universal coverage is one that enrolls many people both healthy and sick so that the healthy can pay for the sick. Currently, governors have recruited about 6,000 people with hypertension and diabetes who, will end up exhausting the fund and this will not help. My appeal to the governors and other levels of Government is to ensure that many citizens are recruited so that the fund can have surplus. This is because the healthy ones will not need to get---"
}