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    "speaker_name": "Mr. Ethuro",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Ekwee David Ethuro",
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    "content": "I am not yet aware of your being technologically savvy, but if it was your neighbour, Eng. Rege, I would agree. What we do not know is the money you are giving through the Ministry of Education. We are happy this year that you have increased it from Kshs800 million to Kshs1.5 billion. We want to thank you for that. That system is still controlled by the civil servants through the office of the District Education Officer (DEO). These are things the Minister needs to check. The Government sends money either for roads or water, and because the civil servants do not seem to understand this policy scenario we are talking about. They think he has sent money for purposes of paying wages, night-outs and allowances. Remuneration is not the capital good or service you want to render. You must render the services. I am glad the Minister of State for Public Service is here. You ought to know this. You can only be paid because you render a service. A salary itself is not the end product of what we are doing. It is for an input known as labour but you want to ask yourself what that labour did. That labour must be productive to the extent that what it produces is enough to pay for the productivity of labour itself and leave a surplus that should go into capitalization of the country. Is that what we are doing in the public service, Minister? Is that what you are measuring in terms of value for money when you bring the Appropriation Bill here? It is far from it. In fact, it is my submission that if the Executive does not reign in on what you call the police service, if the Executive does not reign in on the civil servants, all of you will be going home every five years, and what do we do with the civil servants? We just rotate them around in the name of transfers, thereby exporting bad habits to other areas. Thankfully, we now have a Constitution and devolution. I warned them in my constituency a few years ago, that if you are going to mess in Turkana, and you are transferred, I will look for you where you have been transferred, because you will deserve to go home and not to another area in this Republic to do the same mess you have done where we are. These are the issues that need to be reflected in terms of this money. I support."
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