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    "id": 1072679,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. M. Kajwang’",
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        "legal_name": "Moses Otieno Kajwang'",
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    "content": "more important than the health sector to county governments because this is one of the most important functions, leave alone roads. If you build roads and your people are dying, then you are doing nonsense. You are not doing anything of value to your people. If we focus properly on the health sector, 47 governors plus one President would be impeached today. If there is someone who has failed to deliver health services to the people of the Republic of Kenya in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic - and we have reports from the Health Committee – it is the Head of State and his bureaucrats. If you look at our respective counties, every county--- Right now, the Committee on Health Committee is looking at COVID-19 expenditure for each of the 47 county governments. There is no single county government that has justified its expenditure of COVID-19 funds. It is this House that looked at the Managed Equipment Scheme and failed to get a resolution on the scheme. Today, we have said that this Governor should go home, and so far, we have the Report of the Committee. This is a default position that the Governor should go home because the renal units supplied to him through an opaque process called the Managed Equipment Scheme were not working. How many counties have failed to use their renal and dialysis units? Their Intensive Care Units (ICUs) are not working for reasons as small as electricity and the poor quality of water. I visited Samburu County and found the Managed Equipment Scheme equipment were all kept in boxes because they do not have a reliable supply of water in those health facilities. This House failed to come to a resolution. We did come to a resolution because the Committee on Health told us that the Managed Equipment Scheme was a fraud, but the House did not confirm that report by the Health Committee. The Governor has failed to put in place the renal units and for this, he has compromised the health of the people of Wajir. A health worker died because of lack of oxygen. This is gross negligence which extends to 47 county governments. The lack of oxygen is gross negligence. However, the gross negligence extends to all the 47 county governments. In my own county, Homa Bay County Government, we lost a young nurse who worked at the Karachuonyo Sub-County Hospital. She died because of COVID-19 related complications. If the MCAs of Homa Bay County are watching this proceeding, I would like to remind them that if the Governor of Wajir County can be impeached because a health worker due to lack of oxygen, I encourage them to impeach my governor because a health worker also died in Homa Bay County because she was not provided with appropriate care."
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