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    "id": 807716,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/807716/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "June 21, 2018 SENATE DEBATES 26 Sen. Halake",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir. I rise to support our colleague, Sen. Khaniri, on this topical issue, which plays right into the discussions around corruption and mismanagement of our resources. The Ministry of Health, of course, attracts that in very big measure. However, I agree with Sen. M. Kajwang’ on the proposal for a performance audit. I actually wrote down the 2015-2018 performance audits and I think it will be quite in order for us to commission that audit. Mr. Speaker, Sir, what happened to the Managed Equipment Service (MES) is that there was a contract with some five multinational firms. These are Philips, some company from China, another one from India and General Electric (GE). These firms were supposed to maintain, replace and manage this equipment and I wonder if they ever did that. Mr. Speaker, Sir, we were told that in the Supplementary Budget for 2016/2017 that there are certain contractual obligations which were not met by the Ministry of Health. As a result Kshs80 million was added to the payments because of non-performance of contract obligations. As we speak, there is more “bleeding”, not just from the initial payments, but also from non-compliance to the obligations of the contracts that were signed by the national Government. All this is unfair to counties because they were not consulted on the contractual obligations. They are not even party or privy to the court papers. The former Governor, Isaac Ruto, is the only governor who did not sign this contract eventually. When he took this case to court, I remember him saying: “We do not know what is in those contracts. Can we also in that performance audit make sure that we are given the contracts, so that we know exactly what to look at?” Additionally, I would like to---"
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