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    "id": 1379472,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1379472/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Nairobi City County, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Esther Passaris",
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    "content": "Therefore, it is important to scrutinise and ask ourselves – as we talk about devolution and bringing services down to the grassroots – whether we can also look at the Executive devolving entities. In Nairobi, we have Mathari National Teaching and Referral Hospital and the National Spinal Injury Referral Hospital. They should be made autonomous so that they can have budgets, employ their own staff, pay for their expenses and be held accountable. I think it is important that the Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission (EACC) looks very strictly into the Ksh1.6 billion. This is because in the health sector, we cannot afford to have monies unaccounted for. I commend the Public Investments Committee on Social Services, Administration and Agriculture for coming up with this Report and highlighting the 23 State corporations that are non-compliant. I know that the Executive is holding them to ransom and not allowing them to grow. Mathari National Teaching and Referral Hospital and the National Spinal Injury Referral Hospital should be left alone to run their own affairs so that they can provide the much-needed services in spinal injuries and mental health. With those remarks, I support."
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