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    "content": "Ports Authority and so on. If you read those Acts, what were being transferred were assets, but not liabilities. This was for a good reason. If you have to transfer liabilities, then the new corporations which were going to start would not take off. They would be stillborn. That is why the spirit of this Constitution very rightly provided that no liability should be transferred really, although it does not state so. It provides that functions must be transferred and counties given enough money to do that. You do not transfer functions together with liabilities, because you will not be assisting the county governments to perform their functions and duties. Actually, you are making the counties stillborn. There is a fear that when people get to know that the debts have been taken over by the Government, then there will be a tendency to make false claims. However, there is a system within the Government to validate their claims. In fact, these debts belong to the Government. As we know, although they are called local authorities, they were actually departments effectively and de facto, of the Ministry of Local Government. The Minister had a lot of powers over them. So, whatever was incurred at that time was the responsibility of the Ministry of Local Government and by extension, the Government. So, when we say that the Government should now take over these debts, we are actually asking them to own up to their responsibilities. When they take over, there is a system within the Government which will do special auditing to make sure only valid claims are paid."
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