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    "id": 1527134,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Tetu, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Geoffrey Wandeto",
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    "content": "Our county governments also seem to lack the capacity to absorb the funds they receive from the national Government. A recent report shows that many counties have not even absorbed their capital expenditure budgetary allocations, or they have been deviating their capital expenditure allocations to finance recurrent expenditures. The biggest problem that we have in our counties is bloated workforce. Every governor who comes into office adds 200 or 300 new employees. After the expiry of the governor’s five year term, those employees cannot be fired because they are employed on permanent and pensionable terms. A new governor comes into office and adds another 500 new employees. Many counties need a staff audit. Maybe, it is time that staffing matters in the counties are placed under the Public Service Commission (PSC), if they are not already there, so that staff establishments for various service units can be approved by the PSC and their salaries properly determined by the Salaries and Remunerations Commission (SRC)."
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