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    "id": 1504429,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Buuri, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Mugambi Rindikiri",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Deputy Speaker. From the outset, I join my colleagues in supporting this Report. Just like my colleagues have said, it is high time we understood the difference between the national Government and county governments. Why do I say so? On a daily basis, I see the Senate which is supposed to oversee activities of the counties having absconded that responsibility in totality. They are now trying to oversee the national Government. Almost every day, they summon Cabinet Secretaries and Principal Secretaries to answer questions that they are not supposed to answer. Sometimes, this causes a lot of confusion. I am the Vice-Chairperson of the Departmental Committee on Housing, Urban Planning and Public Works. We get conditional grants that are appropriated by the National Assembly but spent by the counties. When it comes to oversight, the National Assembly cannot oversight counties, and yet conditional grants are misused by county governments. At the moment, no governor is being bashed left, right and centre on SHA and SHIF. Hon. Deputy Speaker, health services are devolved and the money allocated for it has already been channeled. However, when you go to the dispensaries, there are no drugs. Some"
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