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    "id": 1015374,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Nominated, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. (Ms.) Dennitah Ghati",
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    "content": "Allow me to say that the parameters put in place include health, agriculture and poverty. The fact is that women in this country suffer inappropriately, when it comes to issues of health. I say so because you saw what happened at Pumwani Maternity Hospital last week. Health has received 17 per cent of the national budget which is good. But how does this budget translate into reality? At Pumwani Maternity Hospital, you saw a woman who went to deliver, but sadly enough, she had to deliver outside the gate. It is not fair in this time and era to have a woman deliver the way that woman did. It is a shame! Yet, we are talking about 17 per cent of the budget going to health. This 17 per cent must translate to maternal health which in this country is a big challenge. What is maternal health when a woman cannot deliver in a delivery room? We talk and talk but we do not implement. I am a strong believer that if a woman carries a pregnancy to birth, that is 9 months, there must be a baby. In fact, a health baby and that is why we are talking about allocating money to health and specifically maternal health. Poverty has taken a feminine face in this country. We are in a situation where we see women and persons with disabilities as the majority of the poor in this country. We have a tendency in this country of clamping our budgets together. We cannot have persons with disabilities budgets falling under the Ministry of Labour. Everything to do with disability is under the Ministry of Labour. We must be deliberate to ensure that even within these various ministries, we have allocations that are clearly around persons with disabilities, women and the youth. We have the Equalization Fund which is very important. It was put together by the CRA. In this country, we have seen this Fund target the Arid and Semi-Arid Lands (ASALS). There is need to relook at it. Hon. Speaker, we need to re-look at the Equalization Fund. I come from the County of Migori and Kuria East Constituency. Kuria East is equally marginalised. We cannot say that counties are the basis for allocating the Equalization Fund. As we speak, we know Migori County has issues. As Hon. Aden Duale has said, we must be very categorical and we must look at the level of plunder in our counties. It is not just receiving money. A lot of plunder and misuse of funds is going on in the counties. Migori County now, like any other county, receives about Kshs1 billion. This formula is good. We will support it because it is going to address the issues that we are talking about and we must, as women, build our voices in terms of revenue discussions in this country. We must be completely supported in this..."
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