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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Ichung’wah",
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        "legal_name": "Anthony Kimani Ichung'Wah",
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    "content": "Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I know it is an opportune moment for many of us to make political statements on a very serious matter, but it is also very irresponsible of us in this House. This is a House that has been charged with the responsibility of appropriating resources. The Member from Turkana has said very unpleasant things about the Government. He may assume that he is speaking about the Government but he is talking about this House because it is this House which appropriates resources. Is the Member in order to say that this House is appropriating money in a skewered way and even mention stadia, forgetting that places like Wote in Makueni County have never had a stadium? He said that we are allocating money to areas where there were stadia before. It appears that he has not read the Report of the Ad Hoc Committee that came up with the Supplementary Budget. The only old stadia that are being renovated include Kasarani and Nyayo in Nairobi, and Kipchoge Keino in Eldoret. The same member talked about a national insurance scheme for livestock, saying that this House only appropriate money on paper. We do not appropriate money on paper. If the Member has been ignorant of what has been going on, the money goes to payment of premiums for livestock insurance. Last month, I witnessed it. This is a matter that is widely covered by news channels. Livestock farmers were compensated. As a responsible leader from Turkana County, he should be educating his people on how to have their livestock covered by insurance scheme, and not accuse this House of appropriating money on paper, because we do not do that. We appropriate money. This House has a responsibility to oversee Government on implementation of that programme. I want you to find the Member completely out of order for accusing this House of appropriating money on paper and to projects that do not exist because those projects exist. I am sure you will sit in the Departmental Committee on Agriculture, Livestock and Cooperatives and see whether that money goes to paying premiums for livestock insurance for farmers in your county but since you probably go home once or twice in a year, you may never know when these things happen. 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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