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    "id": 1527226,
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    "speaker_name": "Busia County, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Catherine Omanyo",
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    "content": "slowed work. They also have needs. They are parents and guardians taking care of many other people. For anybody to give their services adequately, they need to be paid on time all the time. We also have the court fines under the pending bills. It is crazy. You can get one county that has such bills running into billions. The lawyers are fatter than the workers in the counties. They get more money than the real workers in the counties. Go to any county now and ask the workers when they last received their salaries. It is frustrating that a man wakes up every day to go to work. He has a good wife and children who see him in a suit, leaving for work each day, yet, they are unable to pay school fees. The children have even been chased from school because their fathers, who purport to be working, have nothing to show that they earn a salary. The counties need support. We should not kill devolution. Accountability is paramount. We want our counties to look like cities. The President is one for the country, but in the counties, our ‘president’ is the governor. We should reach a town and note the difference. If you come to my town, Busia, after 6.00 p.m., you will find that even the streetlights are not working, and when you move out of the town, you find that most of the roads are not tarmacked. Whenever there is rain, it is a tall order to make it home safely. That is why we have too many accidents every now and then. I support this Bill, hoping that when we finally have more money allocated to the counties, we will cajole our governors to spend every dime accountably. Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker."
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