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"content": "I was in Kapsabet County Referral Hospital and it is in a pathetic condition. I hope the National Environmental Management Authority (NEMA) should close that hospital. What I witnessed after I left Vihiga County, I drove immediately to the Kapsabet County Referral Hospital; that place smelled like death. The filth and the dirt where Governor Sang has run down completely that hospital. It cannot even qualify to treat an animal or even a sick dog. That place, I noticed that even when you are inside the ward, you can smell death, dirt, and filth. You go to the toilets and the wards; I was shocked. I have never been traumatized in this life, even when I was arrested by the Subarus, this was the first time I came face to face with the incompetence of Governor Sang in terms of running down that county referral hospital. There is no lighting, basic light is not there in the wards. There are no drugs; I was shocked. I want to encourage the MCAs to do proper oversight. The MCAs need to do oversight. Can you believe in confidence some of the medical practitioners told me that they have to buy gloves; when they are treating patients at Kapsabet County Referral Hospital? When your patient walks in before the doctor, he will tell you, to go and buy gloves in the pharmacies in Kapsabet town, buy syringes, and buy masks. After the doctor has seen you, they tell you to go and buy drugs again from the pharmacy. Where we saw a week ago, the Governor was launching only Kshs48 million worth of drugs, but most of those drugs are fluids and reproductive health drugs. Instead of the issue of HIV/AIDS prevention, he was launching other things, which I cannot say because of this parental-guided programme. It is a parental guided programme that every Kenyan watching, and I do not want our Parliamentary Broadcasting Unit (PBU) to be sanctioned by the Ministry of Information and Communication Technology (ICT). So, Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, there is a problem, and I hope the MCAs for Bomet County, Kericho, Embu, Narok, Lamu and the rest of the counties including Nairobi where the Nairobi City County Delegation is talking to you, we cannot be working hard to pass laws to give them powers, and yet, they are not doing oversight. We cannot. We have given them financial autonomy. We are now giving them a pension scheme. We are giving them everything as the Bible says. When we met MCAs, the Senate Majority Leader knows because we go to County Assemblies Legislative Forum (CALF) where we are in Kisumu. One of the requests of the MCS was a pension scheme, and also the issue of financial autonomy. The Bible says, if a child asks you for bread, you do not give them the stone. The MCAs asked for us, and we have delivered. The minimum requirement we want from the MCAs is proper oversight. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, you saw what happened in my county assembly, where an Ad Hoc report was being tabled, where the Governor Sang’s administration could not account for 10 billion Kenyan shillings worth of the projects. The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Director, Hansard and AudioServices, Senate."
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