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    "id": 1014927,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1014927/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Omanga",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Millicent Omanga",
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    "content": "How they changed from a PPP to MES, it is under unclear circumstances. From their own concept paper as the Ministry, they gave us statistics that if we went through PPP, all counties would pay around Kshs1.5 billion. That translates to Kshs31 million per county per year. However, the Cabinet Secretary (CS), Hon. James Macharia and the Ministry decided to change it from PPP legal framework to public procurement under unclear circumstances. This was his baby. The Auditor General’s Report for Financial Year 2015/2016 pointed it out that they did not even change the policy by the time they were changing from PPP to the MES. As I said, If we had a PPP, the counties would be paying Kshs31 million. Right now under MES, we are paying Kshs200 million. Mr. Speaker, Sir, the Ministry did needs assessment. From it, they established that the counties could not absorb this equipment under MES. However, mischievously the Ministry went ahead to roll out this project. It is just similar to the Ruaraka land saga where the Ministry itself conducted due diligence and it was reported that the land was owned by the Government. However, the Ministry ignored its own report and went ahead and paid for the land. The same thing happened in the Ministry of Health. The needs assessment report shows that the county governments are not able to absorb these equipment, but they still went ahead, ignored their own report and rolled it out."
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