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"content": " No, I am not, Hon. Speaker. I also want to infer to the statements from the new Committee Chairs and Vice-Chairs. If the Member was listening, they always referred to and thanked some appointing authority. That means there is always a way through which Members are guided when elections of the leadership of Committees are conducted. We are all Members of Parliament. We can do these jobs better than some men."
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"content": "Hon. Jematiah, are you the only stranger in Jerusalem?"
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"content": " Thank you, Hon. Speaker. I want to start where Hon. Jematiah has left off. I have listened to Members very carefully. As they spoke, they thanked the two principals for creating opportunities, not necessarily for the specific positions that people have been given to some members. We are living in a very difficult time – a time that requires some very difficult decisions to be made. I thank Hon. (Dr) William Ruto and Hon. Raila Odinga for realising that Kenya needs to be united. When times are difficult, people need to move together. If there is anything that we need in this very difficult economic time, it is a working government. Going forward, I hope we shall be a House that will be remembered for coming up with the best, extremely objective laws. Amongst us are people we imagine supporting the government when they are not actually doing the work they are supposed to do. I believe that going forward, given the redistribution of the leadership of the House that has taken place, everybody will be objective. I have in mind the Finance Bill, but I do not want to revisit it. As a House, I do not think we were objective in our debate. We lost that Bill not because it was bad, but because we decided not to be objective as a House. Hon. Speaker, moving forward, now that we are together as a House, let us support this Government to deliver. It is because we are all in it. I hope that whatever laws we make in this House going forward will benefit Kenyans. Kenyans are watching, and they need to have confidence in this House. Thank you, Hon. Speaker."
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"content": "Nyando, ODM): Thank you very much, Hon. Speaker. I join my colleagues in congratulating those elected Chairpersons and their respective Vice- Chairpersons. We hope and pray that they will deliver on the promises we make, both as a house and the Executive wing of the Government. I was asking Dr Nyikal, who was elected Chairman of the Departmental Committee on Health, whether it was wrong to have devolved Health. This is because, from the look of things, most governors who have been mandated to deliver on health matters do not understand their roles. At the national level, the Ministry was to do the policy-making to guide implementation. However, we have a disconnect with the implementers, that is, governors. They have made the Ministry look bad, yet the problem emanates from the ground. We also referred to the Kenya Medical Supplies Authority (KEMSA), which was a brilliant idea. Again, the Government must have bodies that help regulate the private sector out there. Without KEMSA, medicine such as Panadol would sell at Ksh1,000. It is a Government body that helps regulate prices and comes up with regulations that guide that front. We know KEMSA was brought in to self-fund. The Government was only to give seed money, which it did. As we speak, KEMSA is owed Ksh3 billion by governors of various counties, yet they The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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"content": "keep on taking drugs. As it were, KEMSA is unable to apply brakes on the provision of those medicines to counties until they pay. We find ourselves in a quandary. That is why the health sector is looking very bad. How I wish that in the near future, we can reclaim the health function and revert it to the Ministry at the national level so that it is controlled from there. Otherwise, we will always blame the Cabinet Secretary for Health and the national Government, yet we know exactly where the problem lies. Thank you, Hon Speaker."
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"speaker_name": "Kaiti, WDM",
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"content": " Thank you, Hon. Speaker, for giving me this opportunity to contribute to this important matter. First, I congratulate all the newly elected Chairpersons and their respective Vice- Chairpersons for the opportunity they have been given. I advise all the Chairpersons and Vice- Chairpersons that it is high time they served the country and not their party leaders. If they go in the direction of serving their party leaders, they will fail. Let them know that before them, there were other Chairpersons and Vice-Chairpersons…"
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