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    "id": 550383,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "May 19th, 2015 SENATE DEBATES 26 Sen. Wamatangi",
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    "content": "Mr. Speaker, Sir, we urgently need an amendment to the Transition to Devolved Government Act so that we provide a middle ground. Mr. Speaker, Sir, when a county cannot carry out a function effectively – because we cannot close our eyes to failure – we should have a provision whereby the function should be reverted to a committee of the Senate which should appoint a taskforce to run it. How do you explain – I will give an example of my County of Kiambu – when you go to a dispensary and fail to get any medicine other than Panadol, then the following morning, the county government buys vehicles? As you saw, 72 brand new vehicles were bought at a cost of Kshs300 million and yet you cannot find any medicine in the dispensaries. We cannot pretend that there is no problem when there is. As far as I am concerned, we need to provide a mitigating ground. Mr. Speaker, Sir, when the children of Israel were going to the promised land, but they could not enter Canaan, they had to find some middle ground where they could wait until they succeeded to enter. How can we say that if counties fail to provide the service, we should just hang around and say that it cannot go back to the national Government? I do not support it going to the national Government. I also do not support that we do not say a thing about it."
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