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"content": "If Mandera is using it well, then let them get their money. They should not be condemned because Nandi is perpetuating corruption. We must as, a Senate, bite the bullet. Madam Temporary Speaker, the problem with Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission (EACC) and Directorate of Public Prosecution (DPP) is that they are partners in crime. If you report misappropriation of funds in Nandi, they go and tell the Governor that there is an issue. They see each other ‘ nyuma ya tent and that is it. The people who report become the target of political witch-hunt, EACC and DPP, as opposed to pursuing the perpetrators. We should not allow it. I condemn what is happening at Kapsabet Referral Hospital and other hospitals. Madam Temporary Speaker, it is sad. Nandi County got Kshs6.9 billion during the last financial year. We have now increased it to Kshs7.3 billion. However, you will find my Governor changing clothes in the tarmacked runway of Jomo Kenyatta International Airport (JKIA); moving from Etihad to Kenya Airways (KQ) to Emirates to Lufthansa and even to private ones, at the expense of what we are allocating. I feel so pained. We have increased the allocation of Nandi from Kshs6.9 billion to Kshs7.3 billion. There are no drugs in more than 196 health facilities in Nandi including Maraba, Kapsabet, Mosoriot, Kabiyet and Chepterwai. In fact, I have seen in your Bill, Sen. Ali Roba, that health should go back to the national Government because counties cannot manage. In fact, I have appealed to the President that counties should not refuse to relinquish their health function to the national Government. As the Senator of Nandi, I request him to, personally, take over the health function of Nandi County. My people are dying and I am tired of burying them. I am tired of attending funerals, simply because of negligence by somebody who should be doing their job. We have agreed that since our Governor is serving his second and final term, we just pay him a salary. He should allow us to take these functions to the national Government, for the President to assist us. Madam Temporary Speaker, you are our neighbour. I know you have passed through and admire Nandi. However, we are not doing well. The roads are pathetic. We cannot take our produce or milk to the market. Can you believe that our milk expires before it reaches the market? I have seen the issues of maize and unga. My brother, Sen. Osotsi, is my neighbor. However, he cannot access the unga that I have because of the pathetic state of roads. I, as the Senator, cannot even access my home in Kapkeben Village, Mosoriot because the roads are in a pathetic situation. If the road which goes to the Senator’s home is pathetic, you imagine that of the mama mbogas, bodabodas and all other people who are in the bottom of the pyramid? I did not want to speak for other counties. We are allocating funds but we need accountability. Governor Ali Roba now Senator, used to appear before me. Therefore, I challenge EACC; please, do your jobs. We cannot be appropriating money---"
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