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    "id": 895103,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. (Prof.) Ongeri",
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        "legal_name": "Samson Kegeo Ongeri",
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    "content": "I will not stop without talking about the Building Bridges Initiative. This is a God-sent initiative. This country was going to the dogs; there was animosity, chaos, misunderstanding and political order was nowhere. Therefore, the handshake between President Uhuru Kenyatta and Rt. Hon. Raila Amollo Odinga was God sent. However, I have seen busy bodies poking their noses on this good initiative. They should keep their hands away from this because Kenyans are tired of fighting one another. Kenyans want peace, tranquility and to operate in an environment which is acceptable, sustainable and welcoming. It is too early in the game to start talking about succession. In Kisii County, my succession will be the development agenda. It should be an agenda that can bring bread and butter on the table and peace and tranquility to the homes of the people staying in Kisii and beyond. For now, let us leave the 2022 politics in abeyance. They are not adding value to anybody. They are just creating confusion. I stand opposed to the current vendetta being carried around, demonising some people, creating confusion and chaos. That is not the way a mature Kenyan politician should behave. We should tone down and look at what is on the table. The President gave the way forward in his Presidential Address to the two august Houses and we should pick a leaf from there and run with it because nothing will happen without peace. We cannot even achieve the Big Four Agenda that we are talking about. We have spent a lot of resources on curative rather than preventive medicine. If we balance the two and put more emphasis on preventive medicine rather than curative medicine, we will see a decline in the disease percentage and the hospital bills will come down to better levels than what we have seen before. I am a witness to this. I was the Minister for Health when we brought the immunisation programme against measles. We wiped out measles from this country which was causing crowding at our outpatient facilities. Immunisation is a tool of preventing diseases. Instead of thinking of that, we are thinking of high voltage big machines in hospitals. Those machines are good for complicated diseases and I ascribe to them but why can we not put colossal resources towards preventive medicine for us to reduce the burden of disease? The other resources that are left can be used to treat the diseases that cause one to be hospitalized. We can also build state of the art facilities where we can treat or attend to the sick without difficulty. This country has the potential of having medical tourism like India. We have the expertise who can take over if they are properly motivated. Our youth have the potential to energise this nation. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I support the Address by His Excellency the President."
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