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    "id": 1032825,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1032825/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Suba South, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. John Mbadi",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 110,
        "legal_name": "John Mbadi Ng'ong'o",
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    "content": "healthcare. There is still disagreement. We can make positive steps even though the resources are limited. However, those limited resources need not be stolen again. When we hear of billions of shillings possibly getting lost at a parastatal like the Kenya Medical Supplies Authority (KEMSA), where a CEO appears before Parliament and says he is not aware of who decided on what to buy, who to bring or who to source from, it sends shivers down our spines as the institution that oversees that Authority. I appeal to the Departmental Committee on Health where Hon. Nyikal sits to bring very strong recommendations to this House on what steps we need to take in dealing with some of those people who are embezzling funds meant to improve the health services in this country. There are those who are even going ahead to profit from money that was meant to fight COVID-19 and yet, Kenyans are dying in their hundreds every month. We do not know for how long we will be confronted with this pandemic. There are Kenyans - and they are not foreigners - who decided to make themselves millionaires and billionaires from the COVID-19 funds. If we have to remain relevant as a House, we need a report with the names of those Kenyans against whom action should be taken. Those investigative agencies empowered through our Constitution and the law to take action should move with speed. The Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission (EACC) and the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) need to take action against those immoral Kenyans so to speak. I will not over-emphasise the talk about the youth. The President is spot on. If we do not handle the problems affecting the youth cautiously and with urgency…"
}