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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I went last Sunday to a church fundraising in Kepeloi and I visited Kepeloi Health Centre. I was shocked that the maternity ward had no beddings for our mothers. When I called the County Director of Medical Services, he told me that there were over 300 beds lying within the county referral hospital. Nobody has taken the initiative of ensuring that the health facilities in the villages are equipped with the necessary support. If we had support for Senators, they would commission a survey and check the way the counties are running around and executing their budgets. We would have identified some of these loopholes in good time to ensure that county residents get necessary facilities. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I congratulate Sen. Murungi who is leading this team for his patience. Some of us ran out of patience long time ago when we realised that the Committee in the National Assembly was taking us round in circles. Sen. Murungi has been faithful to this course and pursued it. This is one battle that the Senate should not allow itself to lose. It is about the prosperity of this country and this House. We need to ensure that we set the right infrastructure for the next Senate and give them the necessary support to carry out their three responsibilities. I have a request for Senators who might succeed to be elected governors. I hope we will not have the same story in this House next year when the same characters who have been in this House raising issues will then be the ones who will be forced to appear before the County Public Accounts and Investments Committee through warrants of arrest. I ask Sen. Murungi who will be the Governor for Meru, Sen. (Dr.) Khalwale who will be the Governor for Kakamega and myself, that we must be able to show magnanimity and fidelity to the law. In fact, if they believed in the Sang law that we passed in this House, we would be far as a country. I would want to see Sen. Murungi being the Secretary of the Meru County Development Board and Hon. Mithika Linturi chairing that board and ensuring that Meru County gets the kind of support and development that is needed. We need to run an all- inclusive governments in counties. I am sure that we were not power hungry as Senators when we passed that law. However, we believed in it and we want to ensure that we implement it."
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