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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Ms.) Chepkwony",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Hellen Chelangat Chepkwony",
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    "content": "I want to support this Bill because as we speak, the roles of the county assemblies have not been specified. By that, we found that most of the counties were dictated by the governors. The Members of County Assemblies (MCAs) did not know their roles so the governors overruled them. Whatever they were doing were overturned by the governors. That is why as we speak now, we are seeing that many counties are facing so many financial challenges because the county assemblies have no powers over the governors but in the real sense, constitutionally, we know that they are the oversight bodies of the counties. As I speak, I want to inform this House that most of the activities which are being run by the country are just at the county level. That being at the county level, it must be manned properly by the county governments. In any way, if the county government fails, the whole country will fail. I want to thank the Senate for bringing up this Bill so that the mandates of the county assemblies are specified in the right way and the MCAs will know their roles. For example, we see the challenges facing the hospitals in the counties. We are seeing so many strikes. We find that the reason all this is happening is probably because of very low budgetary allocation that are given to the Ministries of Health at the county level because the executive could not direct or show the county assemblies how they should budget for the hospitals. By that, you find that there is no medicine in the hospitals. It is not that there is no money in the hospitals, it is because of the mismanagement where nobody knows what roles the county 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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