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    "id": 1027124,
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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Olekina",
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        "legal_name": "Ledama Olekina",
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    "content": "Mr. Speaker, Sir, the Motion proposed by the Majority Whip does two things to this country. It divides this country into two. It pushes more resources to those people who have always had resources. The problem we have in this country is that sometimes people think we are ignorant, but we are not. Earlier on when the Chairperson of the Committee on Finance and Budget read his report, he gave reasons why he was proposing to deviate from the parameters which were proposed by the Commission on Revenue Allocation (CRA). What this means is that when you increase health to 20 per cent, you go against every principle and even go against the Ministry of Health policy. Mr. Speaker, Sir, the Abuja Declaration was very clear that the amount that should be given to health is 17 per cent minimum. Even if it is the minimum, how do you increase it by three percent and yet you do not come here to tell us what statistics you use? This is because that takes money from counties like Narok. It will be shameful for me to go back and tell the people of Narok County that as your Senator, I have sat there and witnessed a few people divide this country and kill the dream of the President and Hon. Raila Amollo Odinga in uniting this country as one. Mr. Speaker, Sir, what the three percent does is that it benefits three counties. Those are the counties that have more households. That is Kirinyaga, Kakamega and Bungoma counties, while in our counties where people are sparsely distributed, they lose money. If you tell me today that you want to postpone this problem for the next one or two years, you are being indecisive. We will still have this problem. When you do that, you are being selfish because you are telling Kenyans that you only care when you are the Senator, but you do not care about the future of this nation. The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate."
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