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    "content": "equivalent to Kshs223 billion. So, allow the governors to do an outright direct purchase and allow them to enjoy service contract which will cost them only Kshs223 billion but in the contract being signed by the Government, this job of Private-Public Partnership (PPP) is costing Kshs808 billion, a difference of a whopping Kshs585 million. This means that if we gave out this money as conditional grants to the county governments, in total, the governors would spend Kshs10 billion but because of PPP, we are spending Kshs31 billion. The question is; since the Kshs10 billion takes care of the purchase of equipment together with service contract, who is pocketing the difference of Kshs21 billion? These are the clever guys at the national Treasury, who hide the devil in the detail of figures, we pass them as parliamentarians and they go home laughing all the way to the bank. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, this is corruption and our President today is leading is in fighting corruption. So, we want him to listen to us and direct PS Thugge and Cabinet Secretary Rotich to ensure that if it is the Ministry of Health whose mandarins want to walk away with Kshs21 billion, they be stopped because we have pointed that that out. Finally, I want to appeal to the governors that when they sign the contracts for these equipments, they be alert. According to a report by the Committee on Health of the National Assembly Committee which pursued this matter, they have established that out of the seven contracts, only five have been signed, that is, theatre, radiology, Renal Unit and the Intensive Care Unit (ICU). What are the contracts that have not been signed? There are two critical contracts called Category 1 and Category 2 laboratory contracts. Distinguished Senators, if you do not stop your governors from accepting that equipment without signing all the seven contracts, the consequence is that you are going to have an ICU and Renal Unit which are well equipped but cannot function because to run it you need laboratory backup, and those contracts have not been signed. It is going to be a disaster and those units will not function. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I beg to second and urge Members to support our amendment."
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