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    "speaker_name": "Gilgil, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Martha Wangari",
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    "content": "I have seen toilets that have sunk. We have tried so much with NG-CDF to construct them, but it is not sufficient. It is time that this was done properly from the ground. The most important people in this process are not only the education officers but also the National Government Administration Officers (NGAO) who are on the ground. These are the Assistant Chiefs, W azee wa Nyumba Kumi and the Chiefs, so that this information is budgeted for and money is spread across the country but not just in one region. The other issue that we also need to focus on is the issue of overlap and duplication of duties. I know we have allocated some money for El-Nino in different State Departments. We have done that in the State Department for Roads. If you look at the Supplementary Estimates, you will see the State Department for Public Works and State Department for Irrigation also have some money. Do not forget that we also have the National Drought Management Authority (NDMA). I hope that we will be able to know what each institution, parastatal or State Department does. We need accountability. As it has been said before by other speakers, our problem is not even the collection of money in this country but how it is spent. We need prudence and accountability of this money. We have allocated money for El-Nino to different State Departments, NDMA and the counties have another budget. You hear that two per cent of their budget goes to emergencies. We also have two per cent of NG-CDF which goes to emergencies. We need synergy to know what exactly has been done and how we can track this. More importantly, there is the issue of oversight and overlap of mandates, especially even in Parliament. I do not see the reason the cabinet secretaries in this country have to scramble to go to the Senate in the morning and come to the National Assembly in the evening because it is meant to increase accountability. The Senate focuses on the issues that are supposed to be done by this House, yet the counties are struggling with accountability issues. We will get to a point where we will clear that the governors are the ones who should appear before the Senate to answer accountability issues, so that the cabinet secretaries can appear before this House. Otherwise, this overlap will keep on being a circus. A cabinet secretary will be summoned to appear before a committee in this House, and he will say he appeared before the Senate on the same issue. At the end of the day, they know that they do not have any mandate in terms of allocation of resources or even any censure Motion cannot go through in the Senate. Hon. Temporary Speaker, there is the issue of health, which we still have a long way to go. Some of the issues have been addressed through this Supplementary Budget. I hope that many of the issues, especially on referral hospitals, will be addressed in the main budget. The idea of having referral hospitals is that we only take the major diseases there. The health centres and dispensaries should be working and county governments should focus on them. They should ensure that the dispensaries are working, so that immunisation of children, Antiretroviral (ARV) drugs and malaria can be managed there. Issues that can be managed at the local level should not be taken to referral hospitals. That way, we will free the referral hospitals to attend to major health issues. I have seen we have allocated money for backup generators for Kenyatta National Hospital (KNH) in this Supplementary Budget. To most people in this country right now, the health function is in limbo. The Social Health Insurance Fund (SHIF) is not rolled out very well. The transition from National Health Insurance Fund (NHIF) to SHIF is not very smooth. So, we have very many fundraisers. I do not think that there is any Member of Parliament who does not have a fundraiser every weekend for a sick person, hospital bill and a body that is held in a mortuary. We need to do this transition very well, so that we ensure that SHIF is working. On the issue of Linda Mama Programme, we still have a long way to go. It was supposed to take care of prenatal care, birth and postnatal care. However, it is still in a limbo The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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