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    "id": 169933,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/169933/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Githae",
    "speaker_title": "The Assistant Minister, Office of the Deputy Prime Minister and Ministry of Local Government",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 159,
        "legal_name": "Robinson Njeru Githae",
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    "content": "It may be a good idea to start with the history of how this issue came about. The local authorities started with the Nairobi City Council. Here, we had what we called the City Fathers. The City Fathers were retired old men, who were rich and required no salary. They were doing the work on voluntary basis. That has been the history of the Local Government. Even when other areas were created, that was the model that the councillors now, who are not referred as City Fathers remained. They were supposed to be rich retired men who did not require any salaries. Therefore, the issue of salaries never arose. However, things have changed and we must take cognisant of that fact. We have a new crop of councillors who are educated. In fact, our system shows that 30 per cent of our current councillors are graduates. So, that issue of saying that councillors are illiterate no longer applies. They"
}