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    "id": 813402,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. (Prof.) Ongeri",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Samson Kegeo Ongeri",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir. I stand to support the County Statistics Bill (Senate Bills No.9 of 2018) for specific reasons. Statistics in any language is the main artery of the information that you need to extract; on the information that you want to use for work, conclusions or for posterity. This Bill deals with the framework that will enable the county governments to collect statistics. They should not only collect statistics, but also collect quality statistics. If you do not have quality statistics, it will be very difficult to make any sense out of the statistics so collected. When you look at those statistics and compile them, you will be in a position to analysis and make sense out of them. They have a language that you derive out of these statistics. Once you get that language, you will be able to decipher it from the statistics. You can disseminate them for use within the county and the contiguous counties so that, together, they are able to help you in planning and in many other areas. Medicine is an area that I am very conversant with. For example, one of the areas that we put a lot of importance in public health is the data and the information. We collect a lot of statistics on disease epidemiology. In other words, you can use statistics if you want to know how tsetse fly plagues or fools around with the populations whether in Lambwe Valley or other places. The same applies if you want to know the density of the tsetse fly or mosquito concentration in any given area and the number of bites that you are able to get from that individual either from mosquito or the tsetse fly. That will then give you the amount of the poison that they are able to transmit into a human being. Therefore, those statistics will then help us to know the burden of disease in any given locality. Statistics become a very important avenue on which we can translate information to the public and bring public good to rein in on those who are not doing their jobs. I have just given you a purview on one side where you are able to collect these statistics and get information from them. Today, that is why we can stand up and say that the birth rate in this country is so much per thousand as well as the death rate in the infant mortality between the ages of zero and five. Without statistics, we cannot plan for health activities in the nation. I am in the Sessional Committee on County Public Accounts and Investment. One of the things that we have noted is lack of understanding by some of the county officers on how to deal with money that has been allocated to their counties for use for various activities within the county. The reason is that they think that when that money arrives in the county, they take and distribute it as if it was just a family gathering where you hand out some gifts to people. This is public money; therefore, you need to use it judiciously and very carefully. 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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