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    "id": 1274073,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Omogeni",
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        "legal_name": "Erick Okong'o Mogeni",
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    "content": "fighting for more money to go to counties, it is because I and the people I represent, want to receive more money so that we can have these facilities. We had a meeting today with the National Hospital Insurance Fund (NHIF). Since county hospitals are not adequately resourced and do not have the facilities and expertise, most refunds from NHIF go to private hospitals. It is a tragedy. My friends, distinguished Senators, the people you represent do not want you to support a system that is giving more money to Nairobi Hospital, Aga Khan University Hospital or the Nairobi West Hospital. They want a system that is sending more money to county hospitals. In Britain, the Universal Health Service (UHS) money that the Government spends is to ensure public hospitals are functional and consultants are in those hospitals. This enables the citizens of those countries to receive adequate treatment in those facilities. Going forward, I hope we will audit these services. This has been a debate since devolution and in every successive Government. The Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock, Fisheries and Cooperatives has got more money just for policy. Look at what you are getting here for fertilizer subsidy. I wish the Senator for Nandi County was here. This is money we are supposed to give to Nandi County, so that our food security is taken care of. We need to give more money to fertilizer subsidies other than policy. We have heard about policies since Independence. We now need money to go to counties so that our farmers can be supported by county governments to have food security. I am a bit sad with the way we are approaching this idea of industrial parks. The idea behind industrial parks was that we will have something like an aggregation of centres, where we can gain from the economies of scale. Homa Bay, Kisumu, Migori, Kisii and Kericho counties were to all have an industrial centre in Nyamira County. Nyamira County had been picked to represent the entire region. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, what I am seeing on this County Disbursement Schedule, is that we have now broken this money into a few million shillings, which we are giving to 18 counties. Let me ask this question to our Government of the day; what can Kshs250 million do to build an industrial park? It will do absolutely nothing. We are speaking here as the people's representatives. The people who are advising the President should reconsider this idea of picking 18 counties, giving them Kshs250 million and tell them to contribute another 10 per cent which is Kshs25 million. You will set up no industry, especially the kind of industry that we are looking at; the manufacturing industries, the chemical plant industries and the likes. It cannot work. Another requirement and we, as elected leaders in Nyamira County, whether from the UDA or Azimio, all agree that there is no way you will actualize an industrial park at Sironga Centre in Nyamira County, if you do not set up an airport. That is what the Ethiopians did. The Ethiopian Government started by creating airports in areas where they wanted to set up industrial parks. They got support from the World Bank to put in"
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