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    "id": 1005831,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kikuyu, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Kimani Ichung’wah",
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        "legal_name": "Anthony Kimani Ichung'Wah",
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    "content": " Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I am sorry I have to interrupt the good lady Chair of Departmental Committee on Health. My point of order is on relevance. We are debating the Report of the Budget and Appropriations Committee. What the Chairperson seems to be doing now is taking us back to her presentation before the Budget and Appropriations Committee prior to the submission of this Report. I have heard her justify the case for reallocating what was ring-fenced. The Leader of the Minority Party has gone into great lengths to explain to the House that these were funds that were ring-fenced by this House through a House resolution. Therefore, it is only this House, by resolution, that can undo what was done. What the Chairperson is doing seems to be a re-justification. I have heard her saying that the hospitals that were allocated the COVID-19 money have been allocated some money by the Ministry. But remember the House resolved to allocate this money for specific purposes: ring-fenced it to provide PPEs to healthcare workers. The Whip of the Minority Party has said that EACC detectives raided KEMSA because of substandard PPEs that are being issued to our frontline health workers. As the people’s representatives, the House chose to provide money to those particular hospitals to ensure that they acquire quality PPEs. Therefore, I want to beg the Chair to stop dragging the House back and debate the report that is before the House."
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