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    "id": 1174227,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kigumo, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. (Ms.) Wangari Mwaniki",
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        "legal_name": "Ruth W Mwaniki",
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    "content": "without being completed. This Bill is coming in to ensure those projects are completed on time, and that they do not attract penalties that would otherwise be loaded on by contractors for non- payment. You remember the area of Universal Health Care (UHC) has been very dear to the Jubilee administration, particularly His Excellency the President. A lot has gone into this area to ensure that hospitals in slum areas come up. You have seen what has happened in Nairobi. Many Level Two and Three hospitals have been completed to ensure that there is less overloading on referral hospitals like Kenyatta National Hospital (KNH). Most of the issues the Supplementary Bill seeks to address are areas that are so critical to our country and infrastructure support upon which we believe the incoming Government, which we so hopeful will be headed by Baba the Fifth, is going to build on the infrastructural development that the current administration has done most of what this Supplementary Bill seeks to conclude. Hon. Speaker, I support with those words and say that I was happy when I heard a lot of the remarks that came from the Floor when we were looking at the Appropriation Bill. Members were openly saying that they have felt the work of our Committee and the way we have interfaced with the National Treasury to ensure projects across the country, in almost every constituency, are being considered for budgetary support. I am very happy with the leadership of our Chairman. He is very consultative. We are happy with the guidance that your Office has continued to give us, the Clerk, and all Members of the Budget and Appropriations Committee who have burned the midnight oil. We have sat here in this Parliament with the National Treasury until very late hours to ensure all Supplementary Estimates are properly evaluated and that the oversight role that this Parliament, through the Budget and Appropriations Committee, continues to give and ensure it is properly discharged. With those few remarks, I beg to support. I thank you."
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