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    "id": 558522,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Mwangi",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 2252,
        "legal_name": "Peter Kamande Mwangi",
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    "content": "Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker for giving me this chance to contribute to this very important Report on the Status of Implementation of House Resolutions. Being a Member of the Committee, we have faced many challenges. As the Chair has stated, we invited Cabinet Secretaries to our meetings and they failed to come. In other occasions, we are given lesser time because we are forced to even meet during lunch hour so that we could deliberate and ventilate on the issues affecting some of the resolutions of this House. This House passed its own budget in this financial year which we are about to conclude. It is sad because we voted Kshs500 million to cater for cash transfer for the elderly and, up to this minute, only Kshs281 million has been submitted to the National Hospital Insurance Fund (NHIF). We then enquired why we should come, sit down, pass a budget to help our elderly and yet, they are not getting the finances which they are supposed to get. The other issue which is challenging is the release of free maternity funds to our hospitals and health centres. Up to this time, most of our hospitals and health centres have not received reimbursement. We would like to see the resolutions and decrees of this House being implemented immediately, so that we can safeguard the name of the Jubilee Government. The Ministry of Transport and Infrastructure came to us and reported that it was about to implement the tarmacking of 20 kilometres per constituency. But have they started doing it? We are now in the third year. No single kilometre has been made as per the Resolution of this House. We would like to see that Resolution being implemented so that, by the end of our term in 2017, we can see the fruits of what we discussed in this House and tell our people what we have been able to do. 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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