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    "id": 1504391,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Dr) Ojiambo",
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    "content": "Oundo (Funyula, ODM): Hon. Deputy Speaker, earlier today, I had to send money to pay a bill at Busia County Referral Hospital. As I speak, there is a patient who is stranded at a village called Busijo with a fracture. When he went to the county government hospital, he was asked to raise Ksh150,000 so that he could be operated on. They are saying SHA or Taifa Care does not apply in respect to implants. They expect me as a Member of Parliament, with my meagre income, to pay for that kind of expenditure yet we appropriate funds to county governments to literally solve medical care problems. Members who sit on the government side should, honestly speaking, call these governors. You are in good books with them. Plead with them that we Members of Parliament are suffering. We are suffering! As we speak, many schools in the country have no ECD classrooms. The classrooms we built through NG-CDF is what I have to partition for Grade 1 and pre-unit. This is the case and yet, every year billions of shillings are allocated to counties. This year Ksh387 billion is going to counties. I want to echo the sentiments of the Leader of the Majority Party. By this time next year, the impact of the Ksh387 billion will be hardly noticeable in the entire country while the impact of the Ksh30 billion allocated to NG-CDF will be seen and felt all over. We must start asking ourselves, did we make a mistake on devolution? No, we did not make a mistake. We need to have a mentality change. Otherwise, 90 per cent of Kenyans would call for scrapping of county government so that the money can be channelled through NG-CDF with better checks and balances, because the Fund is accountable."
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