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    "id": 1078328,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kitui South, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. (Ms.) Rachael Nyamai",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 13374,
        "legal_name": "Richard Ken Chonga Kiti",
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    "content": "looks at a place where he or she got the highest number of votes and decides to concentrate all his or her projects there. Equitable distribution of resources without caring where the votes went to during elections is a matter that needs to be looked into with regard to distribution of resources within our counties. I would also like to talk about exchequer releases. It is true that the country has been affected, and that funds are becoming scarce. However, the Government needs to make an effort to ensure that money goes to the counties so that it does not become so fashionable for people to say that there is no money from the national Government or that there are no exchequer releases. As much as we know that there is the challenge of COVID-19, the Government should also make the biggest possible effort to ensure that the Exchequer releases are done within possible timelines. Another point is in regard to the health function being devolved. Most aspects of health have been devolved, apart from the international programmes which cut across all the counties. This is a matter that needs to be taken very seriously. We come from counties where there are dispensaries, health centres and even hospitals with no adequate equipment and drugs. This needs to be taken seriously. More importantly, the counties also need to focus on health education and health promotion. This has come as a lesson during the COVID-19 pandemic, where counties like Kisumu as well as the other 10 counties that make a total of 11 counties that are most affected by the COVID-19 have to handle the pandemic. Health education needs to be taken very seriously to ensure that prevention of disease is funded so that the counties do not just focus on curative health and forget the importance of preventive health, which is the most important aspect within health sector. Water is devolved, and this opportunity has been given to the counties. During public participation in most of our counties, community members would say that all they needed was water. This was the case in my county. I believe that the Governor of Kitui County can also take it upon herself to ensure that the people there access water. She has tried to do boreholes, but this is a subject that needs to be taken seriously. What our community members need today is water as opposed to many other projects. I would like to go to declaration of funds that are collected. Most counties today only focus on money that is coming from the national Government. We are aware that county governments also collect big amounts of money. Most of the counties have reported diminishing revenues. I do not know whether it is because of capacity to collect revenue or it is because of corruption. This is a matter that needs to be looked into. I would also like to go to the matter of early childhood education. Educationists in this House will tell you that what children see within the first four years of their life lives is extremely important to the growth of their brain and the attitude they will have towards education. Early childhood education needs to be taken very seriously. There should be standardisation of training and morale boosting for teachers who offer early childhood development education to our children. There should also be standardisation of payment so that we do not have demoralsed early childhood educationists leading to children who are demotivated from as early as the age of three years. With those remarks, I beg to support."
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