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    "id": 169936,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/169936/?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": "We have also visited our neighbours and seen that they are way ahead of us as far as their local governments are concerned. In Tanzania, Burundi, Rwanda and Uganda, for example, their systems work very well. Once a constituency is created, it automatically becomes a district and a local authority. In fact, the area Member of Parliament is an ex-officio councillor of the local authority. The system works very well in those countries because they have done a lot of reforms. In these countries, you will find that all the employees who are paid, transferred, promoted and employed by the central governments are paid by the local government unlike our staff here of the local authorities whom from grade 6 and above are employed by the central government, promoted by the central Government and transferred by the local Government, but are paid by the local authority. So, those are some of the things that we want to rectify in the new policy that is coming up, which we will bring here. Councillors are important and we must recognise that. They are elected at the same time as Members of Parliament and the President. What we go through during our election, councillors also go through it. So, really, there is no difference as far as I am concerned between councillors, Members of Parliament and the President, because they are all elected on the same day; they go through the same rigors and stress of campaigns."
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