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    "id": 184451,
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    "speaker_name": "Mr. Njuguna",
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        "legal_name": "Peter Njuguna Gitau",
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    "content": "Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, I take this opportunity to thank you for granting me this chance. As I support the Vote of the Ministry of Local Government, I wish to make a few observations. First, the local authorities are very important, because they are the vehicles which take development to the people. If you look at the recent past, the local authorities in this land have acquired a very bad name for working hard to attain a very high degree of corruption. This tarnishes the name of the Ministry, and even the name of the country. I would, therefore, request the Minister in-charge to institute the necessary steps to contain that very bad stigma in the Ministry. Wananchi cannot be happy if the people who are charged with that responsibility are fighting for the resources that are supposed to reach them. So, that image must be corrected. The other observation concerns the leadership of local authorities. Time and again, we have seen clerks or chief officers who have failed in their responsible positions. The remedy for a very irresponsible clerk is to effect a transfer to another local authority. That is transferring the same disease and, more or less, killing the spirit in new stations where such officers are posted."
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