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    "id": 647491,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. (Dr.) Khalwale",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 170,
        "legal_name": "Bonny Khalwale",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir. You know, fighting corruption is difficult. Kenya will be a wonderful world the moment a critical number of Kenyans who are in constitutional offices will make it their business to fight corruption and that is the way to go. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I am concerned by what goes on in the 47 counties by virtue of having been the Chairperson of the CPAIC until recently. I really wonder when I see what is happening in the national Government. Could it be that Africans are not ready or fit to lead African governments? The Senator for Laikipia had an opportunity to travel many times to Southern Rhodesia before it became Zimbabwe. He also had opportunities to travel many times to South Africa before Independence. The beauty, order and cleanliness that you saw in Blantyre, Johannesburg and Durban is gone simply because the Blackman is now in charge. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, before I was given a point of information, I was pursuing the issue of Level 5 hospitals. Two days ago, Kakamega became the shame of devolution. The media discovered that patients were sleeping on folded carton boxes yet there are beds in Kakamega Provincial General Hospital; a hospital that receives conditional allocations of more than Kshs400 million for Level 5 hospitals. Coming shortly after that, God forbid, a mother from Mabole Village in Butere where the Governor comes from died after a caesarean section. This is the question I ask myself; why did they accept the job? They either did not want to do the job or knew they could not do. Let us keep on pushing and I know we will succeed in the fullness of time. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I want to make a few comments on how the balance of the money will be spent at the national Government. There are no angels up there either. If you look at Table 2, you will find that Kshs11.6 billion has been set aside for reengineering of the NYS. We do now know how much has been lost in the NYS because Ms. Anne Waiguru is still free, Ms. Kabura still insists on her affidavit and my brother and friend, Dr. Nelson Githinji, is facing problems. Did we really have to reserve Kshs11.6 billion to this opaque thing called the NYS? In fact, Members of the National Assembly are letting us down. You should have demanded that you be given a list of all the projects that this Kshs11.6 billion will be spent on the re-engineering of the NYS. A whopping Kshs14.3 billion will be spent this year on the national safety net, a very good thing for our older members of society. However, we cannot allow it. May be because we are not pursuing these billions in the national social safety net programmes, we do not know whether another scandal is unfolding. We need to streamline the funds going into the national safety net programmes so that people do not use it as a cash cow. I can see that a whopping Kshs17.58 billion will be spent on laptops. Yes, we want our children to be given laptops, but what happened to the same amount of money that was given for the same project last year, the year before and the year before that? Corruption! The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposes only. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate"
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