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    "speaker_name": "Gilgil, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Martha Wangari",
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    "content": "ensure there is medicine; and ensure these facilities function. That is the foundation of primary healthcare. When it comes to education, counties are only responsible for Early Childhood Development Education (ECDE) centres and village polytechnics. All other education infrastructure is supported through the NG-CDF. These are simple, visible things, yet they are not being done. More importantly, Hon. Speaker, I have observed that a lot of donor funding is being channelled through counties, particularly funds from the World Bank. If you examine the housing programme, you will see that county governments are taking the lead as the ones doing it, yet the money is appropriated by this House. For instance, in my constituency, all the four markets are being constructed by the National Government, but the county government will own them. They are using these projects to shine or to show that they are working, yet the appropriated money from this Division of Revenue is not seen. The other problem we have in this arrangement of county governments is the issue of the Senate. There are two things here: First, there is an obsession by Senators with wanting to become governors. They have, therefore, punctured their oversight in terms of focus. Secondly, the obsession of calling Cabinet Secretaries (CSs) to the Senate must be dealt with once and for all. They have lost the ability and mandate to oversee governors. For instance, the former Member here, Hon. John Mbadi, the Cabinet Secretary for the National Treasury and Economic Planning, has gone to the Senate five times. What is he going to do? Appropriation and money matters are in this House. We must deal with this problem through our Standing Orders. We must be clear that CSs appear before the National Assembly. When there is a disciplinary issue, it is the National Assembly to should deal with it. Even a Censure Motion cannot be done by the Senate. They have lost the time to call governors to order, because they are too busy focusing on CSs and what they can do with them. Those two issues must be dealt with in this House. Otherwise, we will keep going round in circles, and the issue of Senate oversight will remain lost. As I support, I would like to put that on record."
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