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    "id": 1098318,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Cherargei",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 13217,
        "legal_name": "Cherarkey K Samson",
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    "content": "people get the money. Even our young men who drive boda bodas pay fees. They need proper parking areas. Nandi County is very rainy. They need a proper place where they can park their boda bodas. With no uncertain terms, it is shocking that we have not performed well in the own source revenue. Local revenue collection has been a problem in Nandi County. I do not think that the leakage is by design. It is not by default. It looks like there is a way that governors operate, especially in my county. They ensure that they get some small money for harambees and handouts. Madam Deputy Speaker, on the issue of health, which is very key, I really wanted to mention this because of the Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19). For all the Level Four and Level Five hospitals, including the Kapsabet County Referral Hospital, the only thing that you can get in all the dispensaries that we have in Nandi County is gloves and painkillers, yet our people are under attack from the COVID-19 issues that we need to fix. As we roll out the vaccine across the counties, a few months ago, the oxygen plant in Kapsabet County Referral Hospital collapsed. When the Members of the County Assembly (MCAs) wanted to visit, they were chased away. If you go there, the standby generator that is there is functioning halfway. If you to Chepterwai, Kaptumo and Mosoriot, the generators that are there are not working yet we are working hard to pass this cash disbursement. When you go to the ground, things are very different. On the street, people tell you that vitu ni different kwa ground because the money that we are passing is not reaching the intended purpose. For example, we were supposed to have 45 maternity wards under the CIDP, but for the last four financial years, the county has only achieved only two maternity wards. We only have one gynaecologist, and therefore our women from Maraba, Tinderet, Chepterwai, Kabyiet, Mosoriot Kemeloi and many other hospitals have to go without the services of a gynaecologist and a pediatrician. You can see that out of 45 maternity wards that the CIDP intended to construct in the last five years, only two are completed. For five years, out of 45 maternities that they intended to construct, only two have been completed. Madam Deputy Speaker, if you look at laboratories, every dispensary should have a laboratory because of the prevalence of Malaria, amoeba and other diseases in the area that I come from. We should have laboratories so that our people can get tested and get the right medication. The intention of the county was to construct 124 but only two have been completed during the four financial years. This means that the money that we are working hard here to ensure that it is disbursed, the fight that we had here might end up being an exercise in futility because we should have ensured that our people get proper medication. I want to challenge my colleagues to find time to know what is disbursed to their counties. I want to thank the office of the Controller of Budget because they have worked with us seamlessly. I wrote a letter to them and demanded to know the amount of money"
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