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    "id": 1134331,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Cherargei",
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        "legal_name": "Cherarkey K Samson",
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    "content": "will find it hard to even provide food. When the prices of food go up, the inflation automatically will go up. To manage the pricing, we should minimize the inputs especially in the food production and maximize the output. We then can manage the inflation rate and therefor the cost of living will automatically come down. Mr. Speaker, Sir, I want to note the issue of the health sector. With this Covid-19 pandemic season, we still have a challenge with issues of vaccine. There is an over- reliance on the issue of donors. Somebody has questioned the shelf life of some of the Covid-19 vaccines that we are receiving in the country. You remember that the CS for Health at that time was threatening Kenyans that if they are not vaccinated, they will not access Government services, which is a clear and blatant violation of the law. Mr. Speaker, Sir, Kenya and Africa at large have poverty mentality. We are now questioning the shelf life of the vaccines that we have been given. There is a new variant that is ravaging the country and the world. Therefore, we should increase more funds to go to the health sector so that it becomes easy. In as much as we are talking about Universal Health Coverage (UHC), we should ensure that we give more funds to the hospitals that we have within our sub counties and county levels. Mr. Speaker, Sir, I congratulate the management of Moi Teaching and Referral Hospital for being number one, followed by Nairobi Hospital. Moi Teaching and Referral Hospital is almost serving the entire Western Kenya, Nyanza, part of Narok and the entire Rift Valley. All cases are referred there. We were able to build referral hospitals like the Coast General Hospital, Teaching and Referral Hospital and Kenyatta National Hospital (KNH) and ensured that they are functional. There is also the Jaramogi Oginga Odinga General Hospital in Kisumu to serve the Kisii and Luo Nyanza. This means that we should allocate more resources to the health sector. The danger we are talking about is the claw back clauses. The issue of health sector has been largely devolved. Mr. Speaker, Sir, I have seen there is allocation of infrastructure. I confirm to you that there was an ambitious programme to ensure that we have infrastructure. However, the infrastructure projects within Nandi County have stalled, for example, from Kopere all the way to Timboroa, another one from Chemuso all the way to Kaptel Ranger and another one from Kaiboi all the way to Chepteruai to Western Kenya. The expansion that opens North Rift and Western Kenya like the one from Kapsabet- -Eldoret-Chavakali or Eldoret-Kapsabet-Nandi Hills and Awasi areas are very narrow. Therefore, they need expansion. Most of road infrastructure projects have stalled. The ones between Lessos and Moi University, Nandi Hills and Imaki, Nandi Hills Town all the way to Savani in Eldai Sub County, have also stalled. When the next Government implements this Budget, they should ensure that they fully complete that infrastructure. I know that the stalling of most infrastructural projects is not unique to Nandi County. In the next budget cycle, we should factor in money to ensure that we complete the projects. You do not only need to see gorofa roads only in Nairobi like the Express Way. That goes without saying."
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