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    "id": 801375,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Wanjala",
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        "legal_name": "Raphael Wanjala",
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    "content": "Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I also want to start by congratulating the President for his Speech. I also thank him and thank the former Prime Minister, Right Honourable Raila Amolo Odinga, for the gesture they have shown to Kenyans by making a decision that is rare – the decision of the handshake. Since it happened, there is calm in the country and businesses are picking. The only problem we are facing today is that as Kenyans embrace the handshake, there are serious things that Kenyans also need to listen to. Kenyans enacted the Constitution in 2010 but there are issues in the Constitution that are making Kenyans feel unhappy. One of them is that we devolved healthcare. When the President is talking about healthcare, it is nowhere in this country. Outside there Kenyans are dying in a very big way. The number is so high. There is no medicine in hospitals. In most hospitals, x-ray machines and theatres have collapsed, wards are dilapidated and there are no beddings in most hospitals because we devolved healthcare to counties and counties have failed to manage the health institutions. These are some of the things that Kenyans want to look at but the problem is that if some of the politicians who have interest in becoming president hear of some people proposing that they want a constitutional review for some of the things that possibly were passed which should now be rectified, they feel threatened. They only think of prime minister and whatever and they do not want anything to happen to the Constitution. The issue of healthcare especially in rural areas needs to be addressed. Even we, Members of Parliament, are now unable to help our people. Even the national Government and county governments have failed. Those are the issues we are facing on a daily basis when we go to our constituencies. We hear that so and so is sick. He requires money and you have no money you can provide. People are dying. Burials are there. You bury 20 people in a weekend. This is an issue that the Government must look at. Those counties would have gone to benchmark on health issues in Makueni. Maybe they would save other counties, especially Busia where I come from. If in Makueni you just give Kshs500 and you and your whole family is treated, those other counties - instead of going outside the country - should go and benchmark in Makueni and then come up with the same programmes. They can hire some of the officers from Makueni to help them manage the insurance fund in their counties. That is the only way our people will be saved."
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