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    "id": 984376,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/984376/?format=api",
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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": "equipment, I expect that some of this equipment will bolster and create capacity for Intensive Care Unit (ICU) and other facilities, which will then cope with the pandemic. When you do a wider survey, it is clear that this money has not gone to the right use. After this pandemic, we need to focus on how any equipment that goes to county governments is utilized to benefit Kenyans. This pandemic has not yet spread to the county level. However, it is clear that if it does, we will have a disaster in our hands. We will not handle it in a much more effective manner. Thirdly, I would like to see a much more robust approach by the county governments, including my county. They should utilize some of these resources that are under the conditional grants, for example, health, roads, urban support programme, afforestation and others. In areas where we have one headquarter, for instance, in Kisii County, I expect that by now Kisii Town should have fully completed various infrastructure development. Unfortunately, that is not the case. We keep on sinking money in and out. It is time we started to look at devolution, not only at the county headquarters alone, but also at other sub-county levels that require some of these resources to grow so that people can feel the effect of devolution. Mr. Speaker, Sir, with those few remarks, I support."
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