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    "id": 461981,
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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Iringo",
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        "legal_name": "Cyprian Kubai Iringo",
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    "content": "Thank you hon. Speaker, for giving me this opportunity to support this Motion. I thank my colleague, hon. Jamleck Kamau for bringing this timely Motion. I rise to support the same with a view of saving money for this country for purposes of development. Whatever little that we will save will be used to do other things which we have been unable to do. In essence, if it means that one has to pay three times to get to a destination whereas there is a much cheaper facility that will take you to the same destination, I find it really unwise and unfair to spend that money when there are so many sectors of this country which require this money. Hon. Speaker, Sir, the comfort that one gets on First Class or Economy Class is not much different. You are usually in the same plane and nobody will reach the destination before the other. You will get there at the same time. It is only that some will be in front of the plane and others at the back. The plane will land at the same time unless I am advised otherwise. Why should one pay for three times the cost for such travel yet he is going for national duty? Like the Mover of the Motion stated, in many sectors of this economy there is overspending and careless spending, which should be checked. If you go to the Government yards in our counties headquarters, you will find vehicles which stalled many years ago parked at the yards. Vehicles will stall because of batteries, tyres and small mechanical problems and nobody thinks about them, but applications are written to the Treasury for new vehicles. I went to our district headquarters on Mashujaa Day and I was told that a vehicle has stalled there for two weeks because it has no tube for one wheel. Then they are saying that they need a vehicle for the purpose of running after bandits and other activities. We need to put our priorities right. We need to know what is good for our country. That is why we should, at all costs and at all times try to save whenever we have opportunity to do so. We have problems and issues with our medical facilities. Day in, day out, people are suffering from various illments especially kidney issues which is becoming a big problem in this country. Many Members of this Parliament, including myself, are called upon to raise money for dialysis for our constituents and people are queuing at Kenyatta National Hospital because the equipment for the same are very limited. We could save this money and even install dialysis equipment in each county if not in every constituency. We do not have ICUs in our counties and if anybody gets hurt in one way or the other, they are brought all the way from Mombasa, Kisumu and Lokichoggio to Nairobi for the ICU services. If we could save this money for the same, it could be very beneficial to our people and we could save many lives. 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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