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    "id": 801915,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Shinali",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 1598,
        "legal_name": "Benard Masaka Shinali",
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    "content": "To comment on public participation, I want to also applaud the Committee for the framework they have come up with. At least in the next five years the Committee will have to visit 12 counties per financial year, which means all counties will have been visited. Having had the privilege of visiting some of the counties, I discovered that as we allocate money here, public participation must be done way ahead or, if possible, we amend the PFM Act such that public participation is done way ahead or continuous. We have allocated money, for example, to MES, the Ministry of Health equipment that have been supplied to counties. Surprisingly, we have found that we have been paying money every year for four years but some of those machines are still in stores; they have not been used yet the contract will expire in the next three years. That means the Government will have lost a lot of money. Still on the Ministry of Health, we have CT scans for which monies have been paid already through supplementary budgets. Using Article 223 of the Constitution, monies are paid without passing through this House. Those equipment are supposed to be housed in several hospitals in the counties yet structures to house those equipment are not there, which means when the CT scans will come we shall start paying but they will not be in use. I would also want to applaud the Committee and the Government for putting in this Budget money for cash transfers to old people. We have people who stay below that poverty line. As from end of July, they are going to start earning Kshs2,000. On top of that there is Kshs500 for NHIF. I also want to congratulate NHIF. I was in India two weeks ago for treatment and I met two Kenyans whom NHIF had sent there. NHIF is recognised there compared to our insurance scheme here where you have to spend money and be paid when you come back. The rains that we have gotten in this country have really damaged our roads. The Committee, together with the transport committee, have considered allocating money for roads. This is a good move. The same move should have been taken to farmers whose crops have been damaged by the rains, so that they get something to fall back to since they might not have good harvest. Bridges have been washed away in all areas."
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