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    "id": 1075466,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. (Dr.) Lang’at",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 13189,
        "legal_name": "Christopher Andrew Langat",
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    "content": "aware of whatever they are doing, you can hear them say we are following the direction of the boss. This leads to terrible corruption which in turns leads to the syphoning of the county money to individual pockets of some people. Madam Deputy Speaker, we must fight this menace seriously as the Senate. I support this Petitioner from Kisii. When we get across most of our counties, there are several projects that have stalled. Worst of all are those projects in counties which their founding governors never succeeded to go to their second term. The governors who came in completely ignored those projects yet a lot of money had been injected into them. If you go to my county in Bomet, there is a massive stadium which was constructed by the first governor. However, up to today when he left, that project which had cost a lot of money to the county has become a white elephant. We must fight these corrupt individuals in our counties that are enriching themselves through public resources. Madam Deputy Speaker, I want to also mention something on the recruitment process. Some governors are terrible. I would wish to tell Sen. Wetangula that there is a governor from somewhere who has recruited 632 people in the name of public health workers. They were never interviewed and their qualifications were not mentioned. That is your county. They are paid Kshs2000 every month through Mpesa. You cannot even tell if those people are existing or they are ghosts. These governors are terrible and we must check on them. When we ask them, they say that they are politicians as well. They are not even ashamed. One of them told us that he is a politician and he has to do the irregular activity. We must follow it up. The worst is coming. Most of the money that we disburse, from here, is consumed through litigation in courts. There are counties that use over Kshs1 billion every month to pay lawyers because of irregular recruitment and creation of positions that are not constitutional. When people petition and take those cases to court, the counties pay a lot of money for the same. I salute the gentleman who brought this Petition and urge the Committee that will take up this matter to handle it seriously for justice to be restored in Kisii County and the other counties."
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