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    "id": 1273834,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Sifuna",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 13599,
        "legal_name": "Sifuna Edwin Watenya",
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    "content": "decisions that we make when we do the opposite. Let us not run away from the decisions that we have made. In Nairobi City County, we have issues that need to be addressed. I want to touch on some of them. Last financial year, Nairobi City County opened its first Intensive Care Unit (ICU). The entire county did not have ICU beds. We need resources to expand the facilities at Mama Lucy Kibaki Hospital. I have spoken to the question of timely disbursement of resources. The Schedule here has two components. It has an amount and date. It is our expectation going forward, because this is a concern that has also been expressed by the Committee itself on page 6 of the Report, the delays in disbursement to counties negatively affect the operations and service delivery as well as priority finding. Our Governor has set upon an ambitious plan of feeding kids in school. It is costing us a county Kshs800 million per year. That is just for a fraction of the school- going children. This amount he is using for this particular programme is only for the kids in public schools. A large proportion of the students in the county are not in public schools. They are in what we call semi-formal schools. We would like an opportunity for this programme to expand. In fact, there are people who have gone to court to say it is discriminatory for one to have such a programme only benefitting people in public schools. I have asked the majority of the students and they are not in those particular schools; they are in non-formal schools."
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