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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Cheruiyot",
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        "legal_name": "Aaron Kipkirui Cheruiyot",
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    "content": "The only challenge that I would like to pose to Sen. (Dr.) Langat as he joins this Committee with the approval of the House is that he should ensure that their reports are turned into actions. They should not just become reports that fill up and gather dust in the Houses of Parliament. The Senate colleagues have requested on many occasions - and this is a request that I had personally made to the Chairperson who has resigned - that the Senate be furnished with all the expenditure that various county governments have used. Mr. Speaker, Sir, it is in my best interest, as the Senator for Kericho County, to know how much the County Government of Kericho has spent up to this particular point in terms of preparation for all COVID-19 related activities. The reports that we are getting are disheartening. This is a view that is shared by each of our Senate colleagues. At least, that is the least that he could do because we are a House of oversight. There is the second and most important thing, and I rose last week to raise it, while we were debating the issues that were before this House. We keep reading in the newspapers, as colleagues in the Senate, that County X has this number of isolation and Intensive Care Unit (ICU) beds. Could we be furnished with documents confirming or disputing that report? Mr. Speaker, Sir, it is a shame that, as Senators in this House, we have to rely on newspaper reports to know about the level of COVID-19 preparedness in the counties. Some of us are not able to tell where the county governments have placed these facilities. It would be important to see the filings they are giving to the Ministry of Health, so that we countercheck and verify. Otherwise, somebody seated at Afya House may very well read that Bungoma County, for example, has 300 isolation beds that have been set up. It is only Sen. Wetangula, when he reads and sees that a certain number of beds are stationed in a particular station, who will be able to tell the Ministry that it is a fraud. We know that these are things that many of the Governors can do. Colleague, Sen. (Dr.) Langat, I wish you well as you serve in this Committee. Bring in the vigour and energy that you are always known to portray. I know him also to be a man of prayer. Therefore, I know that he will not be tempted or distracted by anything else. He will ensure that he serves to distinction."
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