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    "content": "the documents brought here, counties were to be surcharged from the headquarters Kshs4.5 billion per annum for seven years. If you want to change a fixed contract, you draw an addendum to the contract and table it to the House for approval. Two years later, the figure shot up to Kshs6.4 billion. Where was it changed in the contract? Now, we are talking of Kshs9.6 billion in a fixed term contract, who changed these figures and who approved this change? Which Parliament? The Constitution says you cannot draw a cent from the Exchequer without the approval of Parliament. We have asked these questions and nobody is giving us answers. I encourage the Chair of the Senate Committee on Health, the distinguished Senator for Trans Nzoia, to take up this matter and tell this House how the figure moved from Kshs4.5 billion to Kshs9.6 billion. Mr. Speaker Deputy, Sir, the other day, I was happy to see that some counties have gone to court. A county was surcharged Kshs200 million for equipment delivered that is worth Kshs20 million. If that is not monstrous theft, I do not know what you would call it. When that money is taken away, we then say that the county is not working whereas Kshs200 million can change lives, buy drugs and save children that were found in cartons in Pumwani Maternity Hospital. It can also save mothers who die at childbirth. Today in the villages people go to hospital to die; not for treatment. As hon. Members of Parliament representing constituencies in the rural areas, particularly every weekend; Saturdays are funeral days with people dying of very preventable diseases. “ Alikufa namna gani? Alikohoa tu na akafa .” Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, how can we have a country like this and yet we can do things differently since we have the capacity? We export more doctors to other parts of the world than any other African country and they do a fantastic job. Botswana runs on nurses from Kenya. Every hospital there has a nurse from Kenya. When I went to the Isle of Man and felt a fever, I was taken to a hospital and attended to by a Kenyan nurse and she had tremendous respect. Back home, Kenyans are suffering and we are busy pontificating on which formation we want to be and who is going to be the President in 2022. We may get there and find ourselves in the case of former Presidents Mobutu, Tsishekedi and Kabila. It is so painful to talk about these things that are happening to our country. I beg to support the Report from my Committee, though it is not worth supporting."
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