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"speaker_name": "Kilifi North, ODM",
"speaker_title": "Hon. Owen Baya",
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"content": " Thank you very much, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I want to take the liberty of your ruling that I can speak in English in this Motion. I go ahead to do that. I support this Motion. Thabo Mbeki, the former President of South Africa, in the debate on HIV/AIDS and death, said that Africans do not die because of diseases; they die because of poverty. Poverty kills our people because they are unable to access good nutrition and healthcare. That is why you find lots of deaths and the mortality rates in Africa are probably higher than in any other part of the world. Secondly, President Kibaki, when launching universal healthcare said that costs that go into healthcare have impoverished families. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, families sell their property, land, cattle and everything to take care of the sick. These monies are spent at a referral hospital and the person dies. The Government still insists that you have to pay all the accumulated costs for you to take the body of your loved one for burial. This is what my friend, Hon. Oluoch, called double jeopardy. You are continuing to impoverish the people even when they are dead."
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