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    "id": 1014934,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Shiyonga",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 13181,
        "legal_name": "Masitsa Naomi Shiyonga",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir, for giving me this opportunity to contribute on this Report. I would like to start by congratulating the team that worked on this Report. It is one of the giant reports that has ever been received in this House since I was sworn in. This Report clearly states the findings, undertakings and information that came out of the project. I again applaud the Committee for this effort. My fellow Senators have contributed a lot on this particular Report. A lot of time has been taken by the Committee to come up with the findings that they laid on the Floor of the House. A lot of money has gone in this ad hoc Committee, just to give us the information. Mr. Speaker, Sir, I would like to pose a few questions to the Committee on this Report. I barely blame the county governments, especially led by the governors who received this particular equipment. First, did the governors receive this equipment? Yes, they did. Did the governors negotiate and receive this equipment to utilize them, yet they kept them? Yes, they did. Were the governors in charge of these counties when this equipment was being given to them? Yes, they were. From all those questions, it is true that the governors have not utilized this equipment that the Government gave them, hence they need to blame themselves. How do you then continue as county governments? I want to imagine, if you have been given equipment that you are sourcing money for, how do you continue paying for equipment that has been given to you when you doubt its efficacy? Mr. Speaker, Sir, there are governors and ministries of health in those county governments. With this devolution, they needed to go ahead and prioritize this equipment, putting into consideration that they have budgets every year. For the last five years or so, they have been sitting with this equipment. We have been having the equipment wasting away. It is a shame to see the time that has been wasted, when this equipment is there and the county governments have not been utilizing it. A good example is Governor Joho, who has utilized this equipment very well. What went wrong with the other governors? Mr. Speaker, Sir, the findings are not linked to the recommendations that we expected from this Committee. You look at the findings and the observations that the Committee is making are fake. They are really not adding up. I feel like---"
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