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    "id": 887050,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Turkana Central. ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Lodepe Nakara",
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    "content": "there are some counties which have changed the lifestyles of their people, their environment and infrastructure. We need to encourage them by giving them more resources. We have what we call feeder roads, which connect major towns. These roads can make businesses in counties grow because they feed the headquarters of the counties. By doing so there is rapid development of those counties. We want to encourage the county governments to make sure that the feeder roads serve all corners of the county. Through these roads, people get goods and take them to the rural areas where they are needed. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, on the issue of hospitals, I agree with the Members who have said we need our hospitals to have enough drugs. If you visit some areas where there are no Level 5 hospitals or health centers and people depend on private clinics and churches, you will find that the county governments must partner with churches and NGOs that offer medical services to the community. They cannot afford to build health centres all over the country. However, there are some churches and organizations that give services to the community. We want to see the partnership between the county governments and those private sectors offer those services at a low cost. We should ensure we give them more drugs so that patients can have adequate medical services. I agree with the issue of youth polytechnics. We need them in the counties to enable us create job opportunities for our youth. The youth need to get skills like carpentry and masonry so that they can be self-employed. We have no jobs in this country now. The only way we can engage our youth and make them busy is by taking them to those polytechnics. I agree with them that even if you get a ‘D’, you can get to any polytechnic and take a course. After that, we should give them tools or documents to start the projects in the areas they are trained. This is because if they get the training and go out without tools to do the jobs, they still remain unemployed. Let us tell the Government that after somebody receives the skills, we must give them those apparatus so that they can go out there and do things by themselves. We, therefore, need to increase this budget because that is where majority of the youth are. Though we have given Kshs2 billion, we need to increase that amount later. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, on the issue of leasing medical equipment, some counties are paying for them and yet, they have never tried to use them. They are lying in the hospitals and yet, we are paying a lot of money for them. We need to challenge the counties which have not utilised the equipment to do so to enable our people to benefit from those services. It is of no use for us to pay and yet, they are not being used. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, it is a good idea to support Senators so that they can play their oversight role. We need to see money being used well. When we deny Senators money to do oversight, it is like we are telling them: “You have no responsibility or role in devolution.” This is the case and yet, the Senate is where devolution is being “manufactured”. We need to support them. Give them some money so that they can play their oversight because they are the only ones who run all over the county. A Member of Parliament only oversees what is within his or her constituency. However, a Senator can move all over the county. I support this debate so that we can see Senators do something and not only debate in the House using a lot of English and yet, they cannot put anything into practice. If we leave them idle and yet we know most of them are old, we will make them passive and inactive in their roles. I support that we need to give them some money to play their oversight role. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, on the issue of drought and famine, you know what is going on in this country. People in some parts of this country are dying. We cannot ignore nor deny it. As money is being given out now, people are dying. We are debating what is in the"
}