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"content": "headquarters are, actually, five; that is Isiolo, Lamu, Nyandarua, Tana River and Tharaka-Nithi. They are five. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, when we went to Turkana, last week for Senate Mashinani, the whole world was shocked at the level of incompletion of county government projects. One of those projects was the county headquarters. I will propose that this should be the last time that this item appears in the Additional Allocations Bill and should mark the beginning of a serious audit on the use of this money for the construction of these county headquarters. This year alone, a whopping Kshs454 million is being allocated for this function. We cannot be constructing five county headquarters for seven years. There must be something very wrong with what we are doing. Even the value of money seven years ago today, it is a very different value. We must get serious and deal with that matter once and for all. The second issue in that I want to talk about is still on the First Schedule, on the matter of the conditional grant for leasing of medical equipment, another elephant in the room. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, it will be remembered that in the last Senate, we had set a special A d Hoc Committee in which I sat and we went around this country to inspect the equipment under this programme. We went outside this country specifically in the Netherlands to visit the source of this equipment. To our surprise, some equipment were still lying at the producer's manufactures stores in the Netherlands but counties were being given conditional grants to continue paying for that equipment. This was despite the fact that in the deal itself, it is stated that we can only pay for this equipment when it maintains an uptime of more than 85 per cent. Consequently, even when the machines have not been connected, the machines are not serving anyone, we are still paying for these machines. When you look at that schedule, every county is being allocated Kshs124,723,404.30 for this programme. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I will be moving this House in the fullness of time, to perhaps consider setting up a special committee to do an audit of this leasing of medical equipment. This will be to ascertain that all the equipment that we are paying for is in the country, it is set up in our hospitals and it is serving our people. Otherwise, we are just digging a hole where we are throwing our money and there is absolutely zero value for money. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, seeing as it were that my time is almost gone, I wanted to speak about the last issue, which is in the Second Schedule and it relates to funds from courts and minerals royalties. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, if I had time and I do not, I would have gone into the details of that schedule. These schedules are not just here for us to appreciate numbers. They are also here for us to learn certain thing about certain counties and ourselves."
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