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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Cheruiyot",
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        "legal_name": "Aaron Kipkirui Cheruiyot",
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    "content": "Mr. Speaker, Sir, it is destructing my flow of thought. Thank you. On the second allegation, there is a very interesting chain of trends that is being set out here. When you read the Report, you do realize that the County Assembly perhaps has prosecuted a very important point. For example, they established the failure to draft a mid-term strategy for a particular financial year. The governor was supposed to have delivered and shared the same with the County Assembly. Mr. Speaker, Sir, it will be impossible to guarantee such a charge and pass it as having been validly brought before the County Assembly. However, the truth of the matter is that the County Assembly has laid a basis and given us a sneak peek of what is going on and the attitude of the person that is in charge of this county. I move on to the charge that this Committee has found the governor culpable. Like colleague Senators who have spoken before me, perhaps this is our opportunity to send a message across the entire Republic. I do not know of any Senator who would agree with the way any of our 47 governors are running the health docket, especially now that we are faced with a pandemic. Mr. Speaker, Sir, two months ago, I sent a Petition to the County Assembly and County Executive in my own county of Kericho. I reminded them that amidst a pandemic, we cannot be channeling more resources to key infrastructural projects because we know of the promise that it gives in terms of kickbacks, as opposed to strengthening the health department in our various county governments. The governor does not pay key interest on the health docket, the most important docket if you ask me. It varies from county to county, but around 80-cent of the people who vote for us to come to this House cannot afford health services from the private hospitals. Therefore, the difference between life and death for 80 per cent of the citizens of our various county governments depends on the soundness of the health docket in that county. If they have functional health facilities, they will live a long and prosperous life. If it is as sick as what has been painted before us, then many of the citizens will just die. In this case, the County Assembly convinced the Committee that things are not good in regards to how the health docket has been managed in Wajir County. They plead with us as a House with regard to the report that has been brought before us; that this is an impeachable offence."
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