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    "id": 874033,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Alego-Usonga, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Samuel Atandi",
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        "legal_name": "Samuel Onunga Atandi",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker for giving me this opportunity to talk on this Motion. My colleague here is saying I speak in Kiswahili. Earlier in the day, we were discussing the benefits of delocalisation of teachers and I said I support it because right now my class one pupils can speak Kiswahili because of delocalisation. So, I want to tell my brother that we are still not yet reaping the benefits fully. Healthcare remains a big challenge in this country. It is very emotional especially in this House because one of the challenges of Members of Parliament is how to address this issue within our population. Most Members of Parliament will agree with me that this is one area where most of us end up having problems with our constituents. It is actually a shame that 50 years after independence, we are still not really able to address this issue fully. We must find a way within the framework of universal healthcare to be able to address this particular challenge. If in this era we still have cases where we are unable to bury our dead loved ones because of hospital bills, actually this is a very big issue. I challenge the Government because most of the time, you find government officers enumerating their successes about how many roads they have done and about some of the transformations they have done. There is no transformation you can talk about if your people are still unable to teach themselves. This is really a challenge to Government and this Motion which has been brought by my colleague here is very sensitive and fundamental. We ask the Government to come out and stop just giving us stories of rolling out universal healthcare and the rest. I think these stories have been said enough and we want action. We want to see our people living good lives. We want to see our people being treated affordably. This is really the message that we need to point out. Some of these motions that we pass here never go anywhere. I think they are just filed. We tell Government or the Committee that is in charge of implementation to ensure that this Motion is actually implemented by Government. If it is not implemented, then I think there is nothing we are doing in this House. The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposes only. Acertified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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