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"content": "Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I would like to remind Members - and this they know – that Israel is one of the poorest countries in the world. They have no resources. However, Israel, which is in a desert, is able to feed its own people, give its people water and sell technology, including agricultural technology to other countries of the world. The issue of wrong priorities to this Government is such that those of us who sit in the Public Accounts Committee wonder why there is no money to feed Kenyans. Members of this House know that in our last Report of the Public Accounts Committee, we told you that the Government has been paying some ghost being called KenRen. The billions of shillings being used to pay KenRen would be going a long way to alleviate the suffering of the people who do not have food. I do not want to conclude my submission without remembering what happened to the chiefs in Turkana. Those are chiefs--- As you have seen; an hon. Member has already raised a Question, wondering why the Government is disciplining the chiefs. It should not be forgotten by this House that those chiefs are supervised by DOs. When you see them selling food, they sell it on behalf and with the blessings of the DOs. The DOs do it on behalf and with the blessings of the DCs. The DCs do it on behalf of the PCs and the PCs do it on behalf of the Cabinet. Now that we have gone into the county governments, we must restructure the Provincial Administration such that all the organs of the Provincial Administration are rotational in all the counties. No single county administrator should stay in one county for more than three years. That allows them to create god fathers and fiefdoms that enable them to perpetuate corruption. The second thing we must achieve under the devolved Government is to ensure that anybody who is presently serving as a DO, or has been promoted from a DO to a DC, is withdrawn from the county governments and made clerks in Ministries so that, the new broom is clean to sweep the entire House so that this country can start on a new slate. With those few remarks, I wish to support."
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