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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, KIA produced some of the most consummate public servants in this country. When KIA was weakened, we started having wayward public servants who sent this country astray for quite a period of time. To give a proper foundation and grounding to the counties, I laud the distinguished Senator for Busia for this positive thought, but I do not know whether the Motion is his personal Motion or it belongs to the Committee, but whatever it is, it is a very positive thought. If we have a very good foundation for the counties ranging from basic things like management of resources like water, even people who will manage meter readings need some basic training. People must be trained to not only function efficiently, but also respect property and public assets. Because of this lack of training, in many counties, the staff that were inherited from the old local authorities have just carried on with all the malpractices of the old days. We have gone round and we have seen that in some counties, since the new governments came in, revenue collections have gone down and yet the indicators appear to show that the economies of those counties are actually going up. So, without properly trained personnel and without proper management of public affairs, we will continue to have problems; problems which make the National Government very happy. The National Government will always want to hold onto money. They send the money to the counties and the absorption capacity is low, not because there is nothing to do, but because the technical expertise is lacking. We need people who can do budgeting, auditing, implementation, variations, procurement and make the counties in totality self supporting, self-sufficient and able to run so that devolution can be a beneficial innovation to the people of this country. Mr. Temporary Speaker, I want to encourage--- I wish the Sen. Wako had indicated that such an institution need not be domiciled in Nairobi. This institution can be located in Kitale, Nyeri, Baringo or Isiolo. We need to open up this country. Such an institution could even be domiciled on the shores of Lake Turkana or anywhere else so that Kenyans can also go and feel the experience Kenyans elsewhere feel when we train them. Nairobi is overloaded with institutions. You remember when a Motion came here and we were told that out of the 48 universities in the country, about 27 or 28 are around Nairobi. So, we also need to desegregate these institutions. I do not even mind one going to Busia County or anywhere else. We need a technical team to design a proper curriculum for this kind of institution so that you do not just send people there to be taught nothing and everything, then they"
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