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    "speaker_name": "The Governor of Wajir County",
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    "content": "bigger projects worth more than Kshs5 million, like dams, those are equitably distributed depending on where the problems are. My officers have given adequate information regarding the status of health in Wajir County. It is very unfortunate that one of the issues that have been picked is the absence of electricity or a generator for that matter that was supposed to provide power to our oxygen plant, which resulted in us getting oxygen from the neighbouring County of Mandera and Nairobi. The main reason is that Wajir Town depends on generators because we are not on the national grid. For power, we depend on generators driven by diesel. Just imagine if a generator is on throughout the day and night, then there are many breakdowns. We have a problem with power and power supply to hospitals and as a result, we could not power that oxygen plant. However, we have already purchased a big generator, which is about 500 kilovolt-ampere (kVA) that is able to provide power not only to the oxygen plant but also power to the whole hospital. The other thing that we have done since I became the Governor of Wajir is that there were many other services that we have provided. We have built over 50 health facilities, dispensaries and other small health facilities countywide. That means a lot of money has been spent on that. This is nearly in all the wards we have. At least, every ward has one dispensary or more. We also bought some ambulances. Right now, as we talk, we have 16 ambulances that are operational. We repaired the old ones. We purchased three, were given two by the National Government and one by the Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD). Mr. Speaker, Sir, in a diagnostic survey that was carried out by the national Government, Wajir County was given 89 per cent for diagnosis of diseases, while some of the other counties were much below 10 per cent. We were rated among the best. In fact, we were number two in Kenya as far as diagnosis of diseases is concerned. Garissa was number one followed by Wajir. This was done in the last two years. The availability of priority drugs by Wajir County Government was number 13 out of the 47 counties with 59 per cent. Despite being very far away from Nairobi, with poor communication and the county being vast, we were able to be number 13 with 59 per cent. On availability of vaccines by facility types across the county, we were number four with 81.8 per cent. The other one is availability of equipment in hospitals. We were number 20 with 50 per cent. Mr. Speaker, Sir, as I said earlier, the main impeachment is said to be gross violation of the Constitution by not providing adequate health facilities. According to me and my county, we have provided enough. Mr. Speaker, Sir, we have a lot of challenges. You should understand the challenges facing those counties that are very far away. Despite all these challenges, we were able to make this progress and others that we cannot mention here because of time. I wish to plead with the Senate to be sympathetic and not impeach me because of one aspect. We can say that I could be impeached for violation of the Constitution, but it"
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