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    "id": 989139,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Ainabkoi, Independent",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. William Chepkut",
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        "legal_name": "William Kamuren Chirchir Chepkut",
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    "content": " Hon. Deputy Speaker, I rise to support the Supplementary Appropriation Bill. I want to plead with the Chair of the Departmental Committee on Health, Hon. Sabina Chege and the Chair of the Budget and Appropriations Committee, Hon. Kimani Ichung’wah. The Leader of the Minority Party, I salute you. Indeed, you are committed to providing leadership towards addressing the COVID-19 challenges in this nation. Chairman of the Budget and Appropriations Committee, I had mentioned to you that there is no money allocated to Moi Teaching and Referral Hospital (MTRH). We want the highest resolution machines. I come from Uasin Gishu and the MTRH is in my own constituency. It is serving this country. Out of the 47 counties in this Republic, we are serving 22 counties. You allocate a lot of money to other hospitals like Othaya Level 6 Hospital and Kenyatta National Hospital but there is no money in MTRH. I want you to move with speed and allocate money to MTRH for expansion and buying of high resolution machines and equipment. We also want MRI machines. I already mentioned that to the Minister for Health. I also want to talk about the Sports Fund. It is grand money. They have more than Kshs4 billion. We wrote a letter to the Permanent Secretary detailing the same. I have also talked to the Cabinet Secretary for National Treasury. He told me those issues are within the jurisdiction of the Chair of Budget and Appropriations Committee and that of the Departmental Committee on Health. I want the Leader of the Majority Party to be very objective and constructive. I want us to tolerate each other. Let us not quarrel in this House. I subscribe to unity and diversity. Hon. Deputy Speaker, you are a good man. I do not quarrel and neither do I encourage quarrels in this House. I want harmony. Let us not become cheap. I do not want us to be petty. I want us to be mature and provide dynamic leadership in this nation. Let us support His Excellency the President because he is number one – the five-star general in this country."
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