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    "id": 1108422,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1108422/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. (Prof.) Ongeri",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 124,
        "legal_name": "Samson Kegeo Ongeri",
        "slug": "samson-ongeri"
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    "content": "Water is life and without water, many people suffer many other communicable diseases that would require minimum sanitation levels to clear them. In fact, some of the cost on health expenditure can be reduced by 50 per cent, by just provision of water and maintaining a certain level of sanitation. People will then be happy and accept that they have achieved certain milestones just by the provision of water. I believe PPPs will be one such noble aspect in the area of water provision in county governments. Water provision is one of the projects that will need to be invested in. In the end, we will get better results and good yields because of that approach that we will have adopted. Another area that will attract a lot of interest is the health sector. There is both the preventive and promotive aspect of the health sector, which is cost effective in the long run. The curative process is expensive, but we still need it, particularly in the non- communicable diseases that we encounter from day to day. The provision of pharmaceutical and non-pharmaceutical products to our hospitals is an implementation aspect. Therefore, we want a partnership that will ensure timely provision of those products on a timely manner so that patients do not suffer. Where it promotes both the promotive and the public health sector aspect of it, that delivery and procurement process must also be done in good time. That way, our people, apart from enjoying access to water, can also enjoy good health because health is defined as a very important index in society. Any country which has achieved certain minimum level of health provision, enjoys life in full. I think we have every responsibility to spend our resources. Once you exert taxes from people, we must plough back those dividends to the people for them to enjoy those results without any problem. One of the other elements that needs to be shared between the national and county governments is in the provision of infrastructure development. Some county governments do not have the capacity to raise resources beyond their normal conditional grants that they get from the National Government and the funds that this Senate and the National Assembly decide through the Division of Revenue Bill (DORB) and the County Allocation of Revenue Bill (CARAB). The DORA is now capped at Kshs370 billion for the 47 counties and then CARA distributes horizontally the amount that must go to each county. When you look at those budgets and the development budget, some counties can hardly have Kshs2 billion or Kshs3 billion for development. Therefore, they cannot enter into capital investment in some of these very important and essential departments like health, water and sanitation. They cannot also go into the provision of pharmaceutical and non-pharmaceutical items. They cannot manage to go into the area of immunization as a primary healthcare delivery system to our people. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, we need to access resources beyond the normal budget that we have in our kitty. This provides a very important channel through which the private sector can improve the status of the economic wellbeing of a county government. With regard to major infrastructure road network, we do not have a fair share in terms of national equity in getting the infrastructure to each and every county. We have"
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