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    "id": 1431531,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1431531/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Alego Usonga, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Samuel Atandi",
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    "content": "Thirdly, we are in the 13th year of devolution and there are some counties that are still a shame. If you go to some counties, you wonder whether they have been receiving these billions of shillings. Let us also use this forum to caution counties and some governors that we are not going to see them misuse resources or lazing around and failing to implement development projects for the benefit of the people. Devolution was created so that people in the grassroots benefit and grow, but many governors are corrupt and live large. They are not implementing development projects. If you go to some counties, I do not want to mention their names, you will find that nursery school children do not even have ECD classrooms. The classrooms do not exist but governors are running around in big convoys. There is a governor who travelled to a foreign country with a convoy of more than 100 members of staff. This is something that we really need to talk about. As we give them resources, we must ensure that there is a way to check how they use the resources. I do not think senators are doing a good job in terms of over-seeing counties. That is my personal view. If they were doing a good job, then we would ensure that counties perform with the resources we give them. Senators are only interested in backbiting the National Assembly. They want to do roles that we are supposed to do, overseeing the national government. They have left counties to die. Let devolution work for our people. If it cannot work for our people, we can discuss. Thank you."
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