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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Kisang’",
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    "content": "Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, thank you very much. I would like to comment on the statement by the Senator for Migori. You will be surprised that when we get reports from the Auditor-General from counties, we are not even surprised. Almost 100 per cent of the counties have not insured medical equipment. They do not even have paperwork in terms of titles or logbooks. Some of the properties do not even have valuation. They do not have any valuation roll or a fixed asset register. It is important to ask the governors to do valuation for the assets and insure them. As my colleagues have said, if a building gets burnt down by bad luck, what will happen if we do not have resources? Since resources are scarce, they should insure the properties, so that they can be compensated by insurance companies who will have taken the underwriting. This is something that they urgently need to do. We need to move a Motion as a House, so that we can do a resolution to compel them to do asset valuation and get paperwork for building and land. You can imagine some of the hospitals do not even have title deeds for the land where the hospitals are built. By bad luck somebody can decide to allocate themselves that land. You can get some rogue governors who can allocate themselves some of this land. This is a serious matter. I want to comment also on the statement by Sen. Hamida. It is also important for us to be disciplined. The problem is that we lack discipline as Kenyans. Why are we going to the chemist to buy antibiotics without prescription? This is basically lack of discipline. We need to be disciplined and teach our children from ECDEs all the way from primary school and secondary school, so that by the time they become adults, they will have some values. The reason we are buying medicine directly from chemists without seeing the doctors is because of our values. I thank you."
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