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    "id": 1005886,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Baringo CWR, KANU",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. (Ms.) Gladwell Cheruiyot",
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        "legal_name": "Gladwell Jesire Cheruiyot",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I had lost hope of contributing, but thank you so much. The funds that have been allocated to counties are causing a lot of trouble, especially for the Departmental Committee on Health. Sometimes we find ourselves a bit helpless. It was important for the Budget and Appropriations Committee to also tell us whether they interrogated and found out how much money the counties had already allocated to COVID-19 before giving out the Kshs5.8 billion. We cannot be allocating funds left, right and centre, as if the funds they had already allocated are nothing to the taxpayer. It is important for us, as a Committee, to also know how the Kshs5.8 billion will be paid. Will it go directly to the counties or through the Ministry? That is also amiss. It is also important to get to know the mechanisms through which those funds can be tracked and for it to be established that they have been used in the right manner. In my county, the rumour was that they had previously allocated Kshs200 million. When they had a meeting at State House, they were 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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