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"content": "First, I apologise for coming late. I was unwell and thought my lawyer would represent me, but I had to come. Secondly, impeachment is in the Constitution and our laws. However, in my opinion, the impeachment before the House does not meet the threshold to say that it is a gross violation of the Constitution. In my opinion, what the Committee has said is that health is an impeachable issue. It may be impeachable, but it cannot amount to gross violation of the Constitution. I say this because we have done a lot in the County. Since I became the Governor of Wajir County, a lot has been done besides health. I will come to health later. Other areas where we performed satisfactorily include bringing peace and instability in the County. As you are aware, areas in the north have always had tribal clashes due to competition for water and pasture. Clans have been fighting before I came in. For five years, many people lost their lives. Although it is not the duty of the county government to maintain peace and order, we have to work with the national Government to ensure peace in the area. We did that because we cannot provide services to wananchi who are fighting. In the end, we were successful. For the last four years, we have not had a single incident of clan clashes. The other issue common in our areas is clannism and negotiated democracy. When forming the government at the national level, it is usually a Government of national unity. Even at the level, we must have a government of county unity. I am saying that because in the county; there are clans and majority and minority groups and so on. All these people have to be accommodated in the government. In my government, all these people, whether disabled, minority, majority or any other sector of the society are effectively represented. On the issue of development, generally it is across board. All the 30 wards I have receive Kshs25 million per year. That is a total of Kshs750 million, which is equal and not equitable. They are receiving equal amount of money for small projects like water, educational, health facilities projects, et cetera . These are small projects that cost Kshs4 million or 5 million. Mr. Speaker, Sir, bigger projects are also equitably distributed and residents of Wajir County can attest to this. Every year, we spend Kshs750 million. If you divide this amount by 30 wards, you find that Kshs25 million goes to every ward, irrespective of whether or not they voted the governor. That is equal opportunity to everybody. For 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."
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