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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Murkomen",
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        "legal_name": "Onesimus Kipchumba Murkomen",
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    "content": "Secondly, it talks about some counties: Meru, Isiolo, parts of Garbatula, and Elgeyo-Marakwet where some of the equipment is lying idle and has not been fixed. However, they are also giving reasons as to why that equipment is lying there. If there was room for us to amend this Report, I have a completely different proposal that departs from the proposal on EACC, DCI investigating, charging and instituting prosecution. We are dealing with 46 governors. If you come here and for the sake of publicity, you say “prosecute 46 governors” because they signed the memoranda, including Mr. Speaker himself who was then governor. Many other governors signed because they wanted to equip dialysis machines to a local area in our counties. I have a different proposal. As beautiful as it is, we defeat it today and submit it to the Health Committee as a preparatory document. The Committee should then work on proposals of correcting, getting proper Inter-Governmental Relations agreements for purposes of implementation. We should make sure that the money that was already paid by counties like Meru, Garbatula and Elgeyo-Marakwet, but the equipment was not delivered on time, we negotiate an extension of the period of the work of the contractors so that the project can be implemented. This is a beautiful project and we must be alive to the problems we are dealing with. I also want to add that if you look at the indictments from the Committee, they focus mostly on the local contractors. It talks about Angelica, Megascope, but the biggest contractor which is General Electric is not mentioned anywhere in terms of recommendations. We know why. I know because - at least I have been in politics for a longer period of time - it is because it depends on who is the agent of which company, who is related to who and so forth. So, it becomes difficult even to get information. It was even difficult for this Committee to succeed to get General Electric to come before them. Arising from those difficulties, why do we not give a hand of friendship to the Executive, invite them to the negotiating table and tell them we want to renegotiate the legal framework in a way that is implementable. We can even extend the period beyond the seven years that as indicated and get value for money instead of calling for so and so to be prosecuted. If we take the report and say we want to correct the wrongs that are in it through our health Committee and we walk through the journey until we find results and value for money, we will be helping our country more than washing our hands like Pontius Pilate and saying just hang them. I do not intend to oppose the Report, but propose that it becomes part of preparatory documents for future implementation."
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