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    "id": 1040499,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Mike Mbuvi Sonko",
    "speaker_title": "The Governor of Nairobi City County",
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    "content": " Mr. Chair, these are just sideshows. Pursuant to Article 96 of the Constitution, we appeared before the Senate Committee on Health chaired by Sen. (Dr.) Mbito of Trans-Nzoia County a couple of weeks ago. There was a stalemate on the release of funds. Mr. Chair, Sir, I would like to refer this honourable House to affidavit marked 10(e) on page 106. There is a letter that the Cabinet Secretary for National Treasury, Hon. Ukur Yatani, wrote to NMS’s General Badi and copied to us. The letter is confirming that there was no legal framework for Treasury or the City County Government, to disburse funds to NMS. Mr. Chair, we are being impeached because we are obeying the law and the Constitution. These people want us to break the law just the way it happened during the Medical Equipment Services (MES) scandal in the Ministry of Health. From our allocations, we were forced to release money directly to the national Government. The money was used to purchase health equipment, some of which were never supplied to counties. In that report, this Senate recommended that some senior officers in Government – CSs and Principal Secretaries (PSs) – should be charged. I would like to refer the House to page 106 of affidavit no.10. 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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