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    "content": "Kapenguria although it has now scaled down funding. The Government needs to pay attention to this situation because it will lead to a tragedy because we might lose people who are more active in nation building. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, looking at the figures stated here, there are 1.5 million Kenyans infected but there is silence. There is concerted effort to fight corruption up to the level of the counties and we also want people who are involved to step aside as those at the national level did. As we focus on corruption and terrorism, we are forgetting a more serious problem because of the lifestyles of Kenyans. There is a Bill by Sen. Sijeny addressing the issue of reproductive health care but this problem should not be swept under the carpet. This Motion proposes that we should devolve this and we hope that the relevant Committee will visit county governments to get a report. The county governments should set aside a certain amount of funds from their budgets to address this issue. There is over Kshs50 billion remaining in Nairobi here and part of it should be utilized to mitigate this problem. The other day, we had a problem with the funding of county assemblies which had claimed that they are being marginalized and oppressed by the county governments. We allocated a lot of money to Turkana County and that is one county that has this challenge. So, I would expect that as they do their revised estimates, this problem will fully be addressed. My county has been placed at 2.4 per cent but we must reduce it to the lowest level acceptable. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I support this Motion and ask that as soon as we pass it, we should follow it up quickly and even the departments in charge of health in the 47 counties should write to the donors across the world who have been working with us across the board. In fact, they have the desire to work with the counties. For that matter, we must consider this Motion from the perspective of saving our people. We do not want to go to 2017 general elections with many people dead because of this problem. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I second."
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