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    "speaker_name": "Sen. (Dr.) Kuti",
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        "legal_name": "Mohammed Abdi Kuti",
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    "content": "Thank you, Madam Temporary Speaker. I think we should all follow the Senator for Tana River in being brief and precise. I stand to support this Bill. This is the first and crucial Bill we are discussing. It is what will set the pace for the counties to do what they have planned and budgeted to do. I would like to echo everybody’s concerns regarding the fact that loading counties with functions and responsibilities without accompanying these with funding is setting them up for failure. Also, loading counties with functions and responsibilities without the accompanying function assessment and capacity building is also setting them up for failure. Being a medical person and the Chairman of the Health, Labour and Social Welfare Committee, I would like to speak to two issues about loading responsibilities to counties without giving funds and without assisting them in terms of capacity in relation to health. We summoned the Cabinet Secretary for Health to come before us and to tell us what challenges he and his team are facing at the national level in terms of devolving the health functions. This is the only Ministry that has been devolved at a go before assessing the capacities on the ground. He wrote back to us. We realized that the health sector The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposes only. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate."
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