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    "id": 1098387,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1098387/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Malalah",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 13195,
        "legal_name": "Cleophas Wakhungu Malalah",
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    "content": "We must ensure that whatever was started by Hon. Oparanya must be completed before he gets out of office. He committed almost Kshs6 billion to do the Kakamega County General Teaching and Referral Hospital. As we speak, the contractor for Kakamega County General Teaching and Referral Hospital withdrew from the site since 21st January. Up to now, nothing is going on in the construction of Kakamega County General Teaching and Referral Hospital. As the Senator of Kakamega, I will insist that Hon. Oparanya must commit these funds that we are passing here today, to ensure that we have a referral hospital in Kakamega before he leaves office. I am also going to ensure that Phase Two of Bukhungu Stadium, to which he committed almost Kshs2.7 billion, starts. He must complete that project before the end of his tenure. In 2015, Gov. Oparanya started Shamakhubu Level Four Hospital. Up to date, that project has stalled. As the Senator for Kakamega, I am going to ensure that Gov. Oparanya is accountable to the people of Shinyalu by completing the Shamakhubu Health Center. Madam Temporary Speaker, Gov. Oparanya started a project called Shinyalu Tea Factory. Up to now, he has only erected a six door toilet there. You wonder: is a tea factory equivalent to a toilet? As the Senator of Kakamega, I am going to ensure that before Hon. Oparanya thinks of leaving his current office, he must ensure that the people of Shinyalu, Ikolomani, Khwisero, and all the tea farmers in Kakamega get the Shinyalu Tea Factory. It is sad that the Malava milk processing plant has stalled in Kakamega. Nothing is going on, yet it was a flagship project that was initiated in his tenure. Since 2016, nothing has been done about the Malava milk processing plant. As the Senator of Kakamega, I warn and tell Gov. Oparanya that we are releasing Kshs12.34 billion here today. He must complete those projects. This is not his personal, family or pocket money. These are the resources of the people of Kakamega. Therefore, as I pass this Schedule today, I tell him that it will not be business as usual. We are going to ensure that he finishes all his flagship projects. He promised the people of Kakamega a maize processing plant. He is remaining with ten months to the end of his tenure. The people of Lugari have no maize processing plant. It is important that we remind him that we have a scorecard for him. He has been in office since, 2013 and it is my responsibility as the Senator for Kakamega to ensure that he finishes these projects for the benefit of our people. Madam Temporary Speaker, I want to implore upon the Treasury to ensure that timely disbursement of money is done to the county governments, so that we do not have people hiding behind this late disbursement issue. Again, when you look at it critically, the Treasury has tried because right now we do not have any monies pending to the counties in the last financial year. It means that the Treasury has already disbursed monies for the Financial Year 2020/2021. Therefore, there is no reason for any governor in this Republic of Kenya to try and say that they have pending bills, yet the Treasury has already disbursed full amounts since devolution started."
}