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    "id": 833227,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kitutu Chache North, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Jimmy Angwenyi",
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        "legal_name": "Jimmy Nuru Ondieki Angwenyi",
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    "content": "and Anyango at the grassroots level, which is beyond what the counties do. I believe this Parliament may have to come up with some legislation to demand that the revenues that are raised by county governments should be accounted for, and that whatever shall be allocated from the national Government over and above 15 per cent should be pegged to how that county has mobilised resources from within and how the resources have been applied. This is because most counties have been allocated funds in the last five years but you cannot see what has been developed. Where I come from, we have water problems. We have plenty of water but it is highly polluted. It is causing a lot of water borne diseases. The county government has been receiving so much money but you cannot see any successful water projects to address the issue of water borne diseases. Health is given a lot of money and yet, our people in most counties cannot get effective health services. So, our people continue to suffer. Those who fall ill suffer and end up in private hospitals. Take for example, Kisii County, where I come from. We have only one referral hospital. There is no other major hospital in the county. That hospital serves about two million people and yet, the money is being disbursed to the county. Instead of establishing effective facilities in nearly every sub-county or two sub-counties so that they can handle the health of our people, nothing is being done. That is happening in the entire country. Even in Mombasa or Nyanza where my friend, Hon. (Dr.) Nyikal, comes from, he can tell you that he is a medical doctor. They are now over-burdening Oginga Odinga Referral Hospital because nothing has been developed in that county. This is a Parliament of people’s representatives. We should look at those issues. Let us not argue for the sake of glorifying counties. We shall do that if they deliver the services that they are required to deliver, and the Government shall be glorified if it does a good job for all the Kenyans who deserve that service. With those few remarks, I beg to support."
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