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    "id": 857578,
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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Murkomen",
    "speaker_title": "The Senate Majority Leader",
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        "legal_name": "Onesimus Kipchumba Murkomen",
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    "content": "sector under the Constitution is health. What concerns me most is this issue of leasing of equipment. There were protracted negotiations and fights between county governments and the national Government. We were assured that this will facilitate universal healthcare, access to health facilities and services at the local level. We appreciate the work and the intention that the national Government had while working with the counties. How comes this project is shrouded in too much mystery? We would like the Committee, when they look at this issue - we would like to get clearly the amount of money that is due to the counties and the specific resources that are being allocated to specific facilities. Under the Intergovernmental Relations Act and Article 189 of the Constitution, there must be agreements between the national and county governments. Those agreements must be deposited in this House. To what extent are those agreements that county governments entered into with the national Government on the delivery of this service, without depositing the provisions of those agreements to this House, effective? If we are the House that oversights counties, what instruments will we use to oversight when you have an intergovernmental arrangement that does not explain the details of the agreement? Secondly, we would like to know how the money spiralled from Kshs95 million per year to Kshs200 million per year. We particularly want to know from our governors why they are aiding and abetting a process that ultimately they make noise to us about. How is it that counties just run to us when they run into financial trouble without coming to us when the project was established? Finally, to our Committee on Health, a little bit of vigilance is needed from this House. I am being modest. Sen. Mutula Kilonzo Jnr. is reminding me that I am being modest by saying ―a little.‖ I am doing so because out of responsibility, I have to be as diplomatic as possible. I request our Committee on Health to go out of its way to unearth all the information that is related to this leasing of equipment. They should be on top of things when it comes to the implementation of the universal healthcare which is provided for as one of the Big Four Agenda of the Jubilee Administration so that we help the country, the President and this administration to avert situations of corruption, rather than waiting for post mortem two or five years down the line to cry and lament over what we should have done to prevent situations where county resources are misappropriated or to the benefit of individuals. Granted, this is one of those projects that, with the little I know, is under what can be called Public Private Partnership (PPP). The PPP Act must also be invoked. The extended supplies to this law must be observed. We want to know which experts were given to the counties to advise the authorities as the law says to ensure that when they enter into these agreements the truth is established and put on the table. Mr. Speaker, Sir, I beg to support."
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