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    "id": 1014919,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1014919/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Linturi",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 69,
        "legal_name": "Franklin Mithika Linturi",
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    "content": "Mr. Speaker, Sir, you remember that this scheme or project was one of the serious projects of the Jubilee Administration. No wonder these contracts were being signed in State House. The whole intention was to give or provide accessible healthcare to our citizens, which idea was good and we all support it. Having heard many people who perused the Report, I have not seen anywhere written that so and so contractor continues to receive money for items or equipment that have not been delivered. In Meru County, the failure to have an ICU was because the county was not able to provide a building in which to install the equipment which is being done and will be opening any time. The Nyambene District Hospital, the C-arm machine did not have a three phase power supply. Mr. Speaker, Sir, when I went to the hospitals, I saw see our patients, mothers, brothers and sisters getting dialysis services. This problem cannot wholly be attributed to the supplier. The suppliers in one way or another performed their part. Failure by governors to provide space for installation of ICUs or where boxes of equipment have been stored in a corner somewhere, is not the problem of the supplier or Executive. It is a problem that is within the county. Mr. Speaker, Sir, we cannot always be a House that continues unnecessarily to point accusing fingers or be permanently a lynch mob. We must say things as they are and apportion blame squarely where it falls. This House itself just like Sen. M. Kajwang’ said. For the last over five years, it has approved the County Allocation of Revenue Act (CARA) with conditional grants for payment of these equipment in our hospitals. We never rose to strongly say no to this allocation. I find it completely hypocritical for us to start laying blame without, first of all, trying to reflect and see where we have acted negligently or where we have not been able to do what we are requited as a Parliament. Mr. Speaker, Sir, because there is this warning of time, allow me to conclude by saying in the Book of Luke, there are two women that were taken before Jesus Christ for committing an offence of adultery. The punishment was that one was to be killed through stoning. In his wisdom, Jesus Christ said whoever has not sinned let him throw the first stone. All of them went and nobody threw that stone. With those few remarks, I oppose this Report. If we are to subject it to the Committee on Health so that we can see how they can correct and form a basis of how things will---"
}