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    "id": 1015353,
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    "speaker_name": "Ndhiwa, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Martin Owino",
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        "legal_name": "Martin Peters Owino",
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    "content": "responsibility of the Senate is to look at how the money generated is used. If they remove the tool to do what is called fiscal prudence and effort, then you will ask yourself what they are going to use to motivate or punish counties if they are going the way they are doing. Two, the disease burden is not measured by frequent visits to primary health facilities. Right now, we are encouraging people that even if they want to check their blood pressure or sugar levels, they should visit those facilities. If you have such people closer to you, you will have more visits. So, some counties will have several visits not because people are sick per se, but because they want to stay healthy. Therefore, that is a wrong indicator. In fact, if we were to debate this, what would be in line is disease mortality and disease mobility, and the burden on household finances in responding to diseases. So, at one point, we will have to review how these indicators are being used. Otherwise, they are not going to help us. Three, in my constituency in Ndhiwa, we have the largest centre that has not been upgraded to an urban centre, but its population fits. I am sure we are going to lose out on this 5 per cent that has been put on the formulae. That means that, it is not only urban centres that have poor people; poor people are also in rural areas. We missed “kazi mtaani” and we are going to miss in this. So, this is not a good indicator. I appeal that, at one point, we discuss this as a House. Let the Senate do their core mandate, but the division of revenue or originating of money Bills should have been left to this House. Then we could have solved this case. With that, I support and congratulate the Budget and Appropriations Committee and my Leader, the Leader of the Minority Party, for debunking this formula smartly. Thank you."
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