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    "speaker_name": "Suba North, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Odhiambo-Mabona",
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        "legal_name": "Millie Grace Akoth Odhiambo Mabona",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Speaker for giving me this opportunity. I want to support the Report by the Committee. I want to agree with Members that we were hoping that the Committee would have pin-pointed people who were responsible and have stolen money. I wish we were more spiritual as a Parliament because I would have asked the Committee to put, as one of the recommendations, a curse, on the people who did this. Since we cannot curse them, the only thing we can do is to make very strong recommendations for prosecution and we should name them specifically. This money was stolen not by ghosts, but by individuals. In my constituency, a very prominent senior citizen who retired just last year from public service, called Mr. Ongínjo, is being buried next week. He died of COVID-19. Two weeks ago, I tried to save a very good pastor friend of our family who comes from Bungoma, but just getting the basic facilities was a problem. When I raised this matter, people in Bungoma County thought that I was attacking them. We just need to confront the reality that is facing our health system as a country. Some of it may not necessarily be as a consequence of the governors because, fortunately, based on… I tried to help the pastor get an ICU facility, but we failed to do so until the very last minute. I was lucky that through that system, I was actually able to talk to several people in different counties and I got horrifying stories about how our health workers do not have the things they require, including the very basic ones. It is partially because of the mismanagement by our counties. We must hold our counties responsible. We must also know where roles lie. This is because right now, all our attention is at the national Government yet there are roles that are very specific to the counties, which they are not fulfilling. We must also ask the national Government to take action. Sometimes I sit in my house and I think I am nuts. We are talking about PPEs that are lying unused because people are still debating back and forth and yet people are dying. Why can we not release those PPEs to save lives? After that, we can discuss whether procedures were followed or not. Even if the procedure was done poorly and badly, if a life is saved… In the case of the pastor I am talking about, I reached a point where we were just going back and forth about procedure. I The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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