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    "id": 908711,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/908711/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Funyula, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. (Dr.) Wilberforce Oundo",
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        "legal_name": "Wilberforce Ojiambo Oundo",
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    "content": "Nevertheless, allow me to make a few observations in respect of this Report. Let me start with the issue of health. One of the greatest mistakes we made when designing the new Constitution was to devolve health. We must collectively agree as a nation that we made a very big mistake. Health facilities that are run by devolved governments are in deplorable state. Many times, there are no drugs. There is literally nothing in those hospitals. The other day I went to see a patient in the so-called Busia Referral Hospital who had been injured by a police officer to an extent that they had to remove all his reproductive organs. It was in such a deplorable state. It was such a shame being accompanied by the members of the Press. I had to sweet-talk them not to highlight and expose our nakedness in the public or national media. We need to relook at this allocation that has been put on hold for purposes of universal health care so that we see how we can redistribute those funds to other sectors. The manufacturing sector is critical to economic take-off in this country. Last year, we recorded a slowed development of the manufacturing sector. I belong to the Departmental Committee on Trade, Industry and Cooperatives. We had requested for more funds to enable the sector to invest heavily in the Kenanie Leather Factory, the affluent system for the Export Processing Zone A and the completion of building in South B. The allocation we had been given is an improvement based on the last allocation but still is not enough. We need much more to enable us to take off. Luckily enough, I am happy that there seems to be some attempts to invest in the textile industry and the entire value chain. I hope that the trend will continue so that we revive RIVATEX and put in more money in the cotton-growing sector so that our people from Busia benefit from this Jubilee Government. Due to shortage of time, I support the Report."
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