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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Midiwo",
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        "legal_name": "Washington Jakoyo Midiwo",
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    "content": "I am so grateful to God to have ended the assumed power of Anne Waiguru because she is the source of these problems. She was giving these things as favours to these people. I am told even those vehicles have not been paid for since she left. I said here two weeks ago that I heard a lawyer reason on radio. He said something which I thought a poor country like Kenya can adopt. If you want the girl-child to catch up and break glass ceilings, create special schools, bursaries and let people compete equally. This morning I was watching the American Presidential Campaigns. Hillary Clinton does not even talk about being a woman. She says what she will do for the world and what she wants for America. That, to me, is the dream of many women legislators here. But to just give public funds anyhow when Kenyans who are being taxed have no roads is not right. It used to be that if you pay taxes, you should have a road, hospital and free education. Now, you pay taxes and you pay a watchman, make your own road and do all kinds of things. This House cannot sit back and keep blaming the Executive. We must look at the coming Budget with a toothcomb and cut expenditures and allocate elsewhere. Look at what IEBC is going through. A Committee of this House decided not to fund the IEBC and now the Commission says it only has money for 15 months. Kenyans are scampering around because there are no IDs. This House must wake up and smell the coffee. We must begin with ourselves. It is said that charity begins at home. I plead with the Chair of the Liaison Committee to go further and ring-fence the money going to the counties. Before devolution, this country was spending less than Kshs4 billion on medicines. After devolution, last year, the counties combined used just under Kshs30 billion and people are dying in the counties. So, we need to ring-fence money for medicine. Let it go directly to buy medicines. For the time being, let every county buy medicine from the Kenya Medical Supplies Authority (KEMSA) because this is a Government agency whose prices we can control and whose intention was not to fleece Kenyans. The governors are fleecing the sick and the dying using procurement in health because that is the only thing they have left. This House cannot pass another Budget by giving the county governments the decision to decide where to invest because the money does not belong to these thieves. These people pilferage this country. We cannot allow them, as a country, to keep doing what they are doing. The time to stop them is now, so that when the National Treasury releases money, it releases money to a specific medical project. Then we will begin by being neat and clinical and we will stop getting so much flak from our people. Hon. Speaker, I beg for one more minute. This House must not again fund the National Youth Service (NYS)."
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