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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen.Wetangula",
    "speaker_title": "The Senate Minority Leader",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 210,
        "legal_name": "Moses Masika Wetangula",
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    "content": " Mr. Speaker, Sir, this House called the Cabinet Secretary for Health last year and he was unable to answer questions. Why do I call it fraudulent? How can this country lease syringes, plastic gloves and the sort of things that are manufactured in Industrial Area? The whole list is in our records. If that is not fraud, then fraud has lost meaning. If we were leasing sophisticated equipment for cancer and other diseases that are ravaging Kenyans I could understand. However, how can we lease hypodermic needles, scissors and gloves? It is a scandal and yet, each county is contributing to the aggregate of Kshs4.5 billion every financial year, regardless of whether or not the equipment has been delivered, installed and is working. If you go to the villages our people just require a nurse to be present, malaria tablets and to be checked and treated. There are people at 90 years who have never been touched by a doctor; they are treated by nurses and lower level technicians in health facilities. Why are we throwing our money in the hands of business people in the name of helping Kenyans? This is the big question, and if nobody wants to ask this, then we have no business being here. We represent county governments and their interests. It is our duty, regardless of where we sit, to continuously wrestle with the center to get resources to the counties. That is what we are here to do. If you think you are here to defend the indefensible, then you are in the wrong place and business. You are the wrong person in the wrong place! I want to urge this House to scan through this--- 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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