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    "speaker_name": "Butula, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Maero Oyula",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker, for this opportunity to also add my voice to this Bill. I want to start by congratulating the Chairman of the Budget and Appropriations Committee and his team for carefully bringing some of these Bills to the House. It is important that they are carefully looked at and approved by this House. Once a project is started, it must be properly financed and completed. The financing of the county parks is important. For projects that began in the last financial year but remain incomplete, it is important that the money is released to ensure their completion so that wananchi around those parks benefit. Additionally, introduction of industrial projects that will promote employment in the areas is important. We have one park in Busia and everybody has been asking when they are going to start benefitting from it. That was a very good move from the Budget and Appropriations Committee, to ensure that all the parks are funded to finality. Hon. Temporary Speaker, on the issue of health, health workers have been suffering for a very long time and this move is dearly going to motivate them. They have a lot of work. They move from one household to the other. However, I have one fear; Hon. Chairman indicated that they are going to be paid Ksh5,000 each. The County Government will contribute Ksh2, 500 and the national Government will contribute a similar amount. I think the Government is committing an offence because the minimum wage is not Ksh5,000. You cannot pay others the minimum wage and bring in those who are doing a very important job at only Ksh5, 000. I would like to ask the Chairman of the Budget and Appropriations Committee and his team, to look at that area in the future. Let us start, but it should not be Ksh5,000. The distance that these men and women cover from one village to the other is long. They also spend a lot of their time with the families that need their help. Therefore, Hon. Temporary Speaker, I think this Bill is quite in order. The grants or loans that we receive from the donors are public funds and they must be properly accounted for and utilised for the purpose for which the money has been borrowed. Let us not redirect the money to other uses. Let it go to the places where it was intended. Particularly, the county governments must make sure that they use these funds carefully because the funds are going to them for development purposes. As they use the initial allocation of Ksh380 billion for other uses, this is specific to projects. Therefore, a system should be established where the monies given to the county governments from the donors goes strictly to the intended purpose so that we do not lose the loans or grants in the future due to poor funds management. Hon. Temporary Speaker, with those few remarks, I support this Bill and ask the House to approve it as soon as possible. Thank you."
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