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    "id": 1443405,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1443405/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Seki",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 13598,
        "legal_name": "Samuel Seki Kanar",
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    "content": "Mr. Speaker, Sir, let me take this opportunity to talk about the issue of corruption. It is rampant in our counties. Our counties are completely in trouble because of corruption. There is no programme going well in counties without any interruption. There is the own source revenue, which to some extent enables counties to come up with their Finance Bill. They have very good Finance Bills. They have indicated own source revenue very well. However, at the end of it all, they end up not even collecting whatever they have anticipated. We need to sit down as a Senate and pin out governors and county governments. Let us see how they will bring in their own source revenue so that they collect whatever they have anticipated to collect. The kind of corruption we see in the counties on revenue collections is something that you cannot imagine. The expenditure they do on development is shady projects, which within a very short period of time, is collapsing and not ready for human consumption. The kind of roads we see being done in counties cannot exist for more than six months. For the last ten years, we have had many white elephant projects. These are the things that we experience in our counties. We need to think on how we should do things in this country Mr. Speaker, Sir, we have seen issues of pending bills and imprest recurring in our counties. You cannot imagine how one person is having an imprest of Kshs5, 10, 15 or 20 million. These are things that we need to sit down and discuss. They know very well that there are structures. We have structures in the Senate where we have the County Public Accounts Committee (CPAC) and County Public Investments and Special Funds Committee (CPIC). County governors have been called upon. We have heard that sometimes they do not even appear. That is the kind of leadership we have in this country that you call somebody because the law allows you to invite them in order to explain how they execute the expenditure in their counties, but they refuse to come. You execute the entire Standing Orders of the Senate, and still, they do not respect it. These are kinds of leaders we have. We need to sit down as a Senate as and see how we can pin these leaders, particularly the counties. Concerning employment, right now, in most of the technical departments of our counties, they do not have the required workforce. The Road, Transport and Public works departments, the Health Department and Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Fisheries do not have competent technical people to work within those departments. However, we continue to employ people who are not even supposed to be employed as engineers. For example, the Department of Water sometimes does not have the required technical staff. These are the issues we need to sit down and see how to go about them. These are the things that Generation Z are looking for. They have the technical expertise and experience. These are the things that we are not observing as leaders. The Generation Z are looking at us and seeing what we are doing. This is what is bringing a lot of problems. Talking about the national Government and the previous things that we have been doing as---"
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