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    "content": "Maybe Sen. (Dr.) Kuti can enlighten us on the Level Five hospitals. Instead of giving the function of Level 5 hospitals more money, the Government has allocated more money – Kshs4.5 billion - for the hiring of equipment. Those are things that you should be looking at, because in as much as it is important to have equipment in our hospitals, the functions of those hospitals cannot be less important than hiring of that equipment. Therefore, in supporting this Motion and the recommendations herein, I urge the Senators to look into this document in details. We have proposed – maybe we forgot to put it in our recommendations – that instead of suggesting that the Medium Term Budget Policy Statement (BPS) be submitted to us by September, we should amend the Public Financial Management (PFM) Act, so that, that date and month is in the law. In as much as we attempt to persuade the Treasury to deliver this document to us in December, they will not do it. They will bring it on 14th February and deliver it to us, so that we do not interrogate it like we have done in this financial year. Sen. (Dr.) Khalwale said that counties have not been audited. Why have they not been audited? It is because for some strange reason the National Treasury does not think that it is important to audit them. Therefore, they have not been given money. The consequence of that is that although there were supposed to have been reports on the audits of how our counties are spending – in fact, misusing money – we do not have them. We are spending so much time, in fact, shooting down formulas and looking for more money for counties, yet our mandate of oversight---"
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