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    "speaker_name": "Suba South, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Caroli Omondi",
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    "content": " Thank you very much, Hon. Deputy Speaker. I am very thrilled by the passion I am witnessing amongst Members on this particular issue. All the bad habits we see in the counties have actually been transplanted from the national Government. We are doing an introspection of ourselves as a country. While I support devolution and I am happy to see that at least an additional Ksh7 billion is being disbursed to them, let us just take some examples so that you understand where I am coming from. Recently, I was made aware of a county where the speaker of a county assembly was removed from office. They pretended that he had lost the confidence of the Members of the County Assembly. The reality was that he did not have the necessary academic qualifications to hold the job of a speaker. I am sure that in this House and in the Parliamentary Service Commission, we have similar cases. There is nothing new that the governors or lower cadre people are doing in the counties that we are not doing up here. Cronyism is very common. In the counties, people employ their relatives and their friends. It happens in the national Government and here. On tribalism, the Constitution requires that in every county, 30 per cent should be non- residents of that area. How many of us have tried to hold our governors accountable for that? At least I am happy to report that my constituency manager is a man from Kisii Land. Another issue is inflated cost of projects. We are buying our information management software for our health sector at Ksh104 billion, something that can be developed by university students. It is the same thing in the counties. There is no difference. On procurement, we are not following our procurement laws at the national level. So, they are copying us. They are doing the same thing everybody is doing."
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