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    "id": 1557401,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "South Mugirango, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Silvanus Osoro",
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    "content": "This House has debated so much on what the national Government is supposed to do or needs to do. Any responsibility that pertains county governments should be left to the them. However, because of what the county governors are doing, it is about time we asked ourselves how we are going to handle this menace. The Council of Governors claims that the national Government has refused to relinquish part of their responsibilities to the county governments. They blame Members of Parliament about the National Government Constituencies Development Fund (NG-CDF) and other matters. They have taken the Parliamentary Service Commission to court on several occasions. On the other hand, they are moving around counties and constituencies distributing bursaries. The national Government should be dealing with that subject. We agree that we need to amalgamate these funds in the near future to establish one fund and a commission. We are having this discussion. I am very happy that you initiated it. Even before we get to that point, it is important to realise that education is a subject of the national Government. What interest does a governor have in distributing bursaries in secondary schools and universities? They do not even give substantial amounts. It is usually laughable. They give about Ksh2,000, and sometimes Ksh1,000, to students and then they make so much noise about it while moving around. We need to discourage the habit of governors moving around in convoys of 40 vehicles to give bursaries of Ksh5 million to students in villages, and then moving to another village in a convoy of 60 vehicles, half of them carrying goons, to give bursaries of Ksh10 million. Thereafter, they raise issues of how we distribute funds."
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