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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Mwangi",
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        "legal_name": "Peter Kamande Mwangi",
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    "content": "which can arise. A Committee from the two Houses of Parliament sat together and found that there are real problems. They came up with solutions, but they are short-term. There is the issue of the 15 per cent, which is being referred to a referendum. There is nobody who is saying referendum is not good. Referendum is good. I am waiting for it. Some of us have a problem with the constitutional provision that one should get 50 per cent plus one vote of the total vote cast in order to be declared the winner of a presidential election. We want to remove it. So, when they brought about the issue of referendum, we did not care. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I now want to speak on the Level 5 hospitals. As Members of the Health Committee, we discussed the problems being faced by Level 5 hospitals. My people from Murang’a County have to travel all the way to Thika Hospital, which is a Level 5 hospital. I would like to suggest that even though we have come up with the Kshs1.87 billion to support the Level 5 hospitals across the country, we should come up with a long-term solution. We should upgrade all the county hospitals to Level 5 hospitals, so that our people can access medical services nearer to where they stay. I have an issue with the Kshs5 million per constituency for the Economic Stimulus Programme. It would be a very serious offence for us to be going to the governors to ask for this money, if it is to be disbursed through the counties. The money should be disbursed directly to the accounts of the CDF because we have them. I have heard that we should know that the money is meant for completion of projects which had been started previously. We have problems with some of those projects. Some of them were construction of health centres which do not even have personnel. It is high time the Government started hiring personnel. In my constituency, there is a health centre which has been constructed to completion but to-date it is not functional due to lack of personnel. There are nurses who were employed in 2011 but their salaries have since been stopped. They were promised to be absorbed into the Ministry but they are still waiting, not knowing their fate. The situation affects the whole country. If you go to Mombasa, Murang’a, Kisii, Kirinyaga and all other counties, you will find those nurses stranded. For how long can we keep them waiting? Let us give them hope. With those few words, I beg to support and give other hon. Members time to contribute."
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