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    "speaker_name": "South Mugirango, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Silvanus Osoro",
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    "content": "and guarding them, so raia can hardly reach them. All problems are taken to Members of Parliament, who only have one bodyguard. And by the fact of our operations and duties, we are ever with the people. Governors walk with too many people that raia can hardly reach them to explain their problems. There are no medicines in hospitals. They are now sabotaging every health system. They cannot build classrooms. I even heard my governor bragging that the Kisii Teaching and Referral Hospital (KTRH) makes Ksh247 million in a quarter. You are bragging of making Ksh247 million in a quarter in a hospital that does not have drugs, doctors and enough personnel and where people are dying. Why are people attracting curses? Why would one person need 20 vehicles following him to a burial function that does not belong to him or his relative? One vehicle carries a chair, another one carries a carpet, another one carries goons, another one carries a girlfriend, another one carries water and another one carries a toilet. Toilet! Is there a special toilet? Hon. Deputy Speaker, this is very painful. Kenyans are suffering, under devolution. Its intention was to help and devolve functions back to the villages. However, professionals are being killed today. Doctors who went to school for several years cannot even get promotions. They are frustrated. When they raise issues through their society groups and unions, they are threatened, fired and transferred. I know a dentist who could not agree with the governor over their affairs because he sits in a union. He was transferred to a dispensary where he cannot practice. He cannot do his dental work because he questioned the governor on the operations of the county. It is very painful and sad. Some are building their offices which cost a lot of money. Some have even abandoned their offices. They work from stadia. Others have converted their homes to be small state houses, where they hold meetings until at night. It is a sad situation. As we seek to approve the nominee for the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) position of Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission (EACC), we call upon them to start arresting some of these governors. It is time to start arresting some of these thieves who call themselves excellencies. In fact, this term does not belong to them. They are excellent thieves. There is no other better term we can call those governors. We are allocating Ksh397 billion to counties, but you need a microscope to see what it does. You need a microscope to see a classroom and to identify an ECD class. It is a sad situation. I speak with a lot of pain because people are suffering in the villages. They use this money to pay goons. They draw this money and some from their own source revenue to pay goons to attend functions and clap for them. What kind of silly attitude is this? It is just too bad. However, I beg to support the Motion. I hope they will be arrested someday. Thank you very much, Hon. Deputy Speaker."
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