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    "id": 1127030,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Nyatike, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Tom Odege",
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        "legal_name": "Tom Mboya Odege",
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    "content": "the agencies entrusted with the responsibility should make the job very difficult for people who are going down there, and make it to be seen as if they are going down there to look for problems, so that we can make things work. My second concern is that for real development to be seen in the counties, we have to look for ways. I do not know whether this will force a referendum to come in. We need to separate the management of human resource issues with issues related to county governments. If you ask me, we do not need to transfer human resource issues back to the national Government. We need to establish a working secretariat at the Council of Governors’ level, mandated in law to manage nationally the issues related to human resource. This will control the nature of employment we are seeing in the counties. If you go to some counties, mine included, almost a half of the newly employed staff are related to people who are supposed to run the counties. Again, if you look at the issues relating to accountability, county assemblies have failed. This is another issue which we need to look into seriously as a country. Do we need county assemblies if they are toothless? If not, do we empower the Senate to do the same job? Why do we have the Senate and the county assemblies and there is nothing they are doing? Why do we have the Senate and the county assemblies and nothing is being done? Look at the issues of corruption and accountability. Sometimes you see governors being summoned to Nairobi and you wonder why they are coming. This is because you do not see anything tangible happening. I have never seen a governor taken to task over funds. If such things happen in your county, you will realise that maybe it is a bargain for MCAs to get some money from the County Executive. Issues related to development or protection of public resources are lacking. We have some weaknesses in the formation of county governments. We need to re-examine these weaknesses so that we…"
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