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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Murgor",
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    "content": "is open and rampant. Such that even the citizens and the people in the county are losing hope. The citizens are looking at it as being the business of the governor and his people. Then, there are also many biases in employment and placements that the county governments are practising. The citizens in these counties are losing hope because it is like this is a private company owned by the governor. Therefore, the citizens are losing hope, and their expectations are really being discouraged. As a result, they are losing a lot of faith in the governor and team in the county. Also, when it comes to companies that work on roads, in buildings, and in many other activities in the counties, you find that the governors are paying companies that are associated with them - either relatives' companies or their own companies that they register in names that do not obviously show that they are the owners or the ones running them. Those companies become the ones that are the priority when it comes to payments. They first pay themselves. These are not a few companies. They are not one, two, or three. There are about 100 companies, or even up to 300, in some places. This drains whatever money there is for bills that are supposed to be paid and spread to other companies so that there is circulation of money among other companies. Therefore, at the end of the day, among other people who run businesses here and there. If money is spread, everybody will benefit. There will be people who will buy vegetables or sugar. At the same time, other people will pay others to work on their land and work on their settings here and there. Therefore, a county becomes one where money is spreading to everybody. That is not happening, because payments are made to those companies that are associated with the governors. Also, they are running counties like it is their own private companies. People are just intimidated, so that the governor is not criticized. Those who are working with the governor become lords and people who are pushing authority over the people. Therefore, they just make the governing of the county become like a private company and the owners becomes become untouchable. Revenue collection is also not up to where it is supposed to be in most of our counties, because there is a lot of stealing. If the boss is stealing, those who are collecting the revenue know that this belongs to the boss. Therefore, they will go ahead and help themselves and steal from the first stage of the collection. At the end of the day, everybody will steal it because they have seen the governor doing it. So that leaves development in a devastating situation. You talk of roads that are impassible in most places and frustrated health. The doctors and the nurses and everybody who is supposed to be working and contributing to the well-running of health facilities and health activities are just disappointed, discouraged and demoralised. That brings down the levels of services of health. Consequently, many people are losing their lives. Situations that would be helped health-wise are just running out of hand because the governors are not running the hospitals like they should so that it helps the people. Additionally, counties are running away from the Early Childhood Education Centre (ECDE), which is devolved. It is the work of the governors but they are treating it as if it does not belong there. They are just like orphans in somebody's home whose children are there, and looking at these orphans with an unfair eye. So, ECDE personnel do not know where they belong. They do not know where they are supposed to be The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Director, Hansard and AudioServices, Senate."
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