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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Thang’wa",
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    "content": "The current budget of Kiambu County is Kshs21.5 billion. 0.5 per cent of that amount is Kshs107 million. That is enough money to help those people of Mai Mahiu and to help other people in Kiambu County who are moving from their homes, running away from landslides and the dams that are already filling up and these floods. I urge this House, as much as we want, to send more monies to the counties. Let us join hands to hold the governors to account. I agree with the Senate Standing Committee on Finance and Budget when they say that they are increasing these monies because you are giving more functions to the county governments. County governments have been given the task of matching up 1.5 per cent of the employees' deductions when it comes to Aaffordable housing. When the Affordable Housing Bill came to my Committee, as a Committee we noted that and said that 0.5 per cent of all the monies of the Affordable Housing Fund should also be subdivided to the county governments. We also have the Social Health Insurance Fund (SHIF) and the County Aggregation and Industrial Park, where the national Government gives Kshs250 million, and the county should match up with another Kshs250 million. That is why we are increasing this. However, we challenge the county governments, and especially my County of Kiambu, where we have simple-mind kind of projects, of handing out fish and chicken, manure and napier grass. We should use this amount to give major projects such as the Level 4 and 5 hospitals where there is no medicine. The Githunguri Level 4 hospital is complete, but it is a shell of a new hospital. No doctors, no staff. It is not equipped and has nothing. That is why we say, as we send more monies to the counties, let us make sure governors are held to account. When a Senator stands as I do here and mentions those issues that I have mentioned about my county, may it be counted that I am doing oversight, but not politics. This is because I know how much money I send to my county, and I must ask the governor how he spends that amount. So, I support."
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