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    "id": 991370,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/991370/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Suba South, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. John Mbadi",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 110,
        "legal_name": "John Mbadi Ng'ong'o",
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    "content": " Hon. Speaker, I want to raise an issue regarding the Statement as read by the Chair of the Departmental Committee on Health, particularly the third Statement. Hon. Speaker, I noticed that the Leader of the Majority Party and my Whip distracted you a bit. Probably, you did not follow but I am sure you can follow what the Chair has just said through the Hansard . Last week, the Chair gave us statements regarding the expenditure of Kshs1.3 billion from the World Bank. It turns out that the information provided by the Ministry, even if she did not give that statement formally, was not factual. Now she has given us what is allegedly the correct position. How can the Ministry of Health, at this point in time, give false information to the people of Kenya regarding the expenditure of money that is being given by the World Bank of Kshs1.3 billion? We need clear statements from the Health Ministry on what is the correct position of the expenditure that it is incurring. Someone should bear responsibility if the Ministry is misleading the people of Kenya and even has no shame in misleading this House. Action needs to be taken against the Accounting Officer in that Ministry. This is a matter of accountability. When I spoke about accountability, I said that our Committee must help us in following through the amounts that we are allocating. We know there are vultures there who are waiting to take the bigger chunk of the amounts that Kenyans, other friends of Kenya and the Kenyan taxpayers are putting into those funds. Instead of helping the people of Kenya to fight the disease, there are vultures out there ready to embezzle those funds. The Statement from the Chair this afternoon is testimony to that. I will request, as a matter of procedure first, to know whether this House was earlier on misled. If not, what is the Chair going to do to make sure that the Ministry is held to account? Thank you."
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