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    "id": 1291486,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Wambua",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 13199,
        "legal_name": "Enoch Kiio Wambua",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir. Indeed, it is true that yesterday I was contributing to the County Governments Additional Allocations Bill before time lapsed. I have those 11 minutes. I want to continue with my contribution in support of the Bill. As I said yesterday, there is need for a clean-up of this Bill. As I mentioned, I want to emphasize that we must get to a point as a House and draw the line in the sand. We cannot have these five counties that continue to receive allocations for the construction of county headquarters since 2013. Now, 10 years down the line, we are still allocating money for the construction of the same county headquarters in Isiolo, Lamu, Nyandarua, Tharaka Nithi and Tana River counties. Mr. Speaker, Sir, cumulatively, there is a lot of money that has been set aside for that totalling to Kshs454 million. That matter needs to be looked into so that in the next year when dealing with the Additional Allocations Bill, we do not see that item listed there. The other matter that I am very concerned about is on the allocations for the leasing of medical equipment. I mentioned at the tail end of my contribution yesterday that perhaps a time has come that either the Committee on Health on its own motion should decide to do a proper audit of this leasing programme or then it will be necessary to set up another special committee. When you look at that table, there is an allocation of Kshs124,723,404.30 to every county. It is an equal allocation to every county for servicing of the leased medical equipment. Mr. Speaker, Sir, it is clear and all of us know because we come from counties that first of all, not every county receives the same equipment, so they cannot be paying the same amount of money for different equipment. Secondly, there are counties today that have the equipment, but cannot use them because there is no connection to power or water. There is also a case where that equipment is still lying in the source market where the manufacturers are. The Committee on Health on its motion should look into this matter. If they cannot, for whatever reason, then this House needs to form a special committee to look into the matter."
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