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    "content": "Only 11 counties which include Baringo, Bungoma, Busia, Homa Bay, Kitui, Kwale, Machakos, Makueni and others will receive the Water Towers Conservation Fund. The Senate has the liberty to interrogate this matter and you can only do so by looking at this document and the figures. There is no paperwork with us but we have requested, as the Committee on Finance and Budget, to be explained this matter in detail on your behalf together with the infamous Medical Equipment Leasing Plan (MELP). In ordinary circumstances, when you lease equipment, the equipment does not belong to you but to the person you leased it from. The only thing is that once you use the equipment, you have to pay for its use and maintenance. The MELP was signed by the national Government. We have paid for the equipment costs like an outright purchase and also paid for the repair of the machines in advance. Therefore, Senators need to ask their governors an audit of the machines because I suspect something is going on. In a conversation with the Governor of Kitui, he has no idea why they are paying Kshs200 million every year because in their assessment of the equipment they have, they ought to pay less. When you inquire from the Treasury, you will be shocked that these figures are actually estimates. So, we still have fundamental issues that are pending that ought to be interrogated. Lastly, this Senate cannot be used as a conveyor belt for purposes of passing conditional grants which we have no objection to at prima facie but we do not want to appear as if our work is to rubberstamp things that we do not know. With those few remarks, I beg to move and request Sen. Farhiya to second the said Bill."
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