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    "id": 1504413,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Jematiah Sergon",
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    "content": "wage bill is bloated. Every governor comes in and he puts 100 people on the payroll. Most of them are ghost workers. At the end of the day, we are just supervising incompetence, corruption and lack of services in the counties. Even if you are the best President in this country, as long as we still have these counties behaving this way and electing these governors in the same way... Once you are a governor today, for you to be re-elected, you use probably three times the amount of money you used before. When you are elected a governor, the first thing you will do is to save to come back. This impedes service delivery in the counties. As I support the disbursement of money to the counties, I reiterate that money is not a problem, but it is its management. One of the ways is by investing in industrialization in order to generate more income and provide better services, specifically in health and agriculture. It was very unfortunate for us to devolve agriculture and education. If you are very keen in Kenya today, compared to most of us who went to school a long time ago, there is a distinct comparison of a child who is between class one and class four in the village. They are not able to read. The illiteracy level is very high because of the poor quality of education. The Early Childhood Development teachers who teach these children are from the village and probably not paid well. This impedes the quality that we give to our children yet it is the foundation of our nation. As we devolve these funds, we must reflect on how to manage the resources allocated to the counties and help governors understand that the society is now devolved. What happens in the county automatically reflects everywhere in the country. Thank you, Madam Speaker."
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