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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Oyoo",
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        "legal_name": "James Onyango Oyoo",
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    "content": "managed properly, despite the financial challenges that we have in the country. Health was so great a department and need, to have been devolved. I want to take this opportunity to thank my colleague hon. Muli, for coming up with a very pragmatic amendment that needs to be supported. This thing does not require party allegiance, tribal allegiance or those other considerations. People are dying in hospitals. Who does not know that the county governments do not have the capacity and they lack preparedness? We have county governments where institutions that were devolved and, more so, health, are not functioning properly. We will go back home and the public will still rely on us as their Members of Parliament. The public has not been educated that health centers have been devolved. There is the governor and the Members of County Assemblies who prefer to devote most of their resources for foreign travels because they are the people who lack exposure. They want to travel and go to see the world. They do not know that those monies are badly needed to spruce up the health centers and to beef up the medical amenities and facilities that are badly needed back home. So, I want to say that this Motion could not have come at an opportune moment. The idea is not to stifle devolution; the idea is to remedy wanting situations where health centers are lacking medicine; where health centers are lacking doctors and basic facilities that we badly need in our country. It is not about devolution. We just want the Transitional Authority and the Government to take back the Level 4 and Level 5 hospitals, spruce them up and make them conducive and affordable to the public in the meantime. When the county government grows up and they know what they are supposed to do, we will give them back to them. But not today when we have MCAs who will still come, take the center stage and they want to challenge the Members of Parliament on why the health centers are not well stocked with medicines, not knowing that this is now a devolved function and they have the money. Most of them have even bigger budgetary provisions than their Members of Parliament. I want to take this time to thank hon. Mule, support this amendment Bill and say that it could not have come at a better time. We will take those powers back to the county government when they will be mature enough to know their role. When the Governors will know that we need medicine and facilities in health centers and not monies to devote to the MCAs, who have held them hostage turning impeachment on their eyes. So, they have given MCAs money to go for trips outside to see the world which they have always coveted to go and see, leaving people dying here; leaving facilities without medicines. Hon. Mule my colleague, I want to support you and to urge those people out there to realize that we are not trying to stifle the powers of the governors. We are not trying to take away the so-called devolved functions which they had. But things like education and Health must be taken very seriously. I want to thank the Government, despite the fact that we have financial challenges; the functions that were left with the National Government are going on well. Security, despite the fact that there are challenges, you can see the Government trying to single-source security gadgets from Safaricom because they understand the challenges that they know are serious. I want to thank hon. Mule. I encourage Kenyans to wake up. We must take back health facilities and make them a national function. Thank you very much hon. Speaker for giving me the opportunity to support this noble Bill The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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