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    "id": 1545727,
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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Cheruiyot",
    "speaker_title": "The Senate Majority Leader",
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        "legal_name": "Aaron Kipkirui Cheruiyot",
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    "content": "There are also salary arrears for health workers in the county governments; no wonder they are always outside this Senate every other week. I have taken great concern. There is something that I am doing about it, as a leader and somebody passionate about devolution. We must be embarrassed. Apart from just the usual decisions that we make, many times, I see when people come to demonstrate here, Senators join them, and we say, “Oh, yeah, we are going to fight for your rights,” and that is the end of business. We must be a bit serious as leaders. You cannot be granted legislative powers and when people come to demonstrate, you join them and say, “We will think about it.” The following year, they come back again, you are still telling them, “We will do something about it.” Surely, we have to do something about the health workers in our counties. Apart from the funding model that is being proposed here in this particular Bill, there is just something that is not right in the architecture. We must celebrate what happened to the teachers and think along that particular line. When teachers ensure that they have a body that is representative at the national level and looks into all their affairs, in the form of the Teachers Service Commission (TSC), we should have thought about something for the health workers as well. I do not want to speak longer than that. The funds that are listed for loans or grants from development partners are quite a number. There is the Danish International Development Agency (DANIDA), which is supporting primary health in developed contexts. There is the International Development Agency (IDA) and the Kenya Informal Sector Improvement Project (KISIP). Sen. Osotsi, I am not sure whether it is your Committee that looks into these particular specially allocated funds because if there are funds that have been wasted in our county governments, it is this programme. I do not know whether it is the way that it was designed, but the one where county governments are doing something in partnership with the national Government on the informal sectors. Apart from Cabro and the small works that are being done there, looking into the amounts that are being committed and the work that is being done is something that we expect your Committee to lead us. Of course, there is even money for the financial emergency of the locust response project. I remember there was a conversation about it. Financing Locally Led Climate Action Programme (FLLOCA), which is a locally-led action on county climate resilience investment, this one, at least, is a grant, but it does not mean that even if it is a grant, it is money that should be wasted. It should be used prudently. It is a grant to the people of our counties and, therefore, should be used fairly well. There is this other one of the national agriculture value chain development produce. This is what I was talking about earlier, Sen. Mwaruma, that should be the complement of the CAIPS. This programme should help our farmers at a local level begin to generate sufficient produce that will be aggregated into the CAIPS. However, so long as there is no correlation and people are just obsessed with who becomes a contractor of these projects or who does the sheds--- We live in a very funny country. 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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