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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Nakara",
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        "legal_name": "John Lodepe Nakara",
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    "content": "Hon. Speaker, in doing so, the Governors and the National Government will assess the capacity of each county and find out whether it is able to run all the functions of devolved health units. Hon. Speaker, as you are aware, some counties have no capacity to do so. They are not equal in terms of personnel and infrastructure. So, when the National Government and the county governments sit together and discuss, that will help them to come up with the functions to be given to the National Government and those to be given to the county governments. Hon. Speaker, secondly, there are some counties with small budgets. You cannot give big functions to those counties which have small budgets because they cannot run them. The health component is very expensive, wide and important to all Kenyans. So, in this amended Motion, we need the National Government and the county governments to agree so that they can give the functions that they cannot be able to fund according to their budget. It is is a good thing. However, if we decide and say that we can give all the functions to the counties, some counties have small budgets and they cannot afford to give real services to the citizens residing in those counties. Hon. Speaker, finally, in terms of training facilities, some counties do not have them on the health function. We suggest that those should have a common curriculum that will guide the health programme. That is because if we allow the training facilities to be in different counties, each county will have its own way of training medical personnel. By doing so, we can have different ideas coming into the health facilities. Hon. Speaker, finally, in terms of promotions, we must have accepted qualifications where there is no tribalism, nepotism or corruption. If we leave such kind of services to the county levels, they may start promoting people through nepotism without considering qualifications. So, hon. Speaker, I support the Motion as amended by the Members so that we can agree together and let the county governments be open to give the functions that they cannot do to the National Government. We are all serving Kenyans. There is no way the county governments can say they can do this and yet, they do not have the capacity. So, we are encouraging this debate so that the county governments can sit together and accept what they can give and take. That way, we can serve our citizens properly. Thank you, hon. Speaker. I support the Motion."
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