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    "id": 1566791,
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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Oketch Gicheru",
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    "content": "laws. On that, we are scheduling today Kshs116 million that is supposed to go to the counties. Lastly, there are those additional allocations that come from loans as well as grants from other development partners as a country. In this Third Schedule, we are sending Kshs37 billion. It is important that I report to the people of Migori that apart from our equitable share that we sent to Migori that had now passed Kshs8.6 billion on the national Government share, we are scheduling that Migori gets Kshs186 million that is meant for the County Aggregated Industrial Parks (CAIPs), which have commenced and are taking root in Migori. The status is still wanting. The Governor must take note and ensure that this Kshs186 million we are sending does the rightful job. The second thing we are sending to Migori here is money for the CHPs who used to be community health volunteers, sometimes past. Of course, they were incorporated. These CHPs are a key component of our healthcare system in Migori County, and we are giving an additional Kshs88.4 million in this Schedule. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, lastly, on that national Government share, we are sending an additional allocation for doctors' salary arrears that are in Migori, Kshs 27.7 million. In that category alone, we are adding a whopping Kshs302 million to Migori County. I think this is commendable. As it has been seen and it affects Migori and other counties, I wish the National Assembly, in passing this schedule, would have added under the national Government share, a portion for the Universal Health Coverage (UHC) workers. This is the portion that they should have added, so that we can deal with this issue of moving the entire payroll of UHC workers from national payroll and then putting them on county payroll, yet there is no money to follow that. I think it is going to be problematic that we might face a situation where we will have a total collapse of primary health care. This is because if that payroll is transferred to counties and there is no allocation under this additional allocation bracket, those workers will go to counties and then they will not work because there is no money. Before we realize, they will drop out and all hospitals as well as all other health care facilities will not function. This is a responsibility of the National Assembly to allocate money under this docket that will have gone to the UHC workers. Senators have said so here. Sen. Cheruiyot and Sen. Sifuna have talked about it very passionately. We will still fight for that and make sure that the national Government share must be able to take care of this. Migori County seems not to have so many offenders to the county laws because, checking on this, we are scheduling under court fines as additional allocation, just about Kshs974,000. We are further scheduling to Migori County an additional Kshs371 million under loans and grants that includes money from Financing Locally-Led Climate Action (FLLoCA), DANIDA and the World Bank. In all this total basket, we are adding Migori County an additional Kshs674.8 million. This is money that if put to good use, should be able to transform the life of the people of Migori County. I urge the leadership of Migori County, that after doing all this work here, we must make sure that these 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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