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    "content": "should not fear that our governors will feel that we are fighting them. It is not a question of fighting them. Mr. Speaker, Sir, we should also ask ourselves: What role do we play in over- sighting the corruption that takes place during hiring of staff? We are now speaking of staff of the former local authorities. The level of corruption that is now going on is unbelievable to the extent that the executive officers are giving a soft landing for their friends, relatives and cronies to have an easy way of landing jobs in the county governments. There are very many of them right from village administrators all the way to the sub-county. Maybe we, as the Senate, want to ask ourselves: What direct oversight role do we want to play? For your information, whereas this oversight role is in the custody of Members of the County Assembly (MCAs), MCAs are virtually in disarray because of the challenges they are having in terms of remuneration. Most of them have to come all the way to the headquarters of the county. Usually they do not have money. When they go there, they start chasing little allowances that can enable them survive because of lack of financial muscle. So, the responsibility placed upon us is very immense. Finally, Mr. Speaker, Sir, as I support this Motion, I want us to be very cautious about the issue of giving those employees a handshake. The experience we had about retrenchment in this country is that all the people who were retrenched are either dead and, if they are alive, they have become alcoholics. If they are not alcoholics, their wives have run away. So, this issue of retrenchment destroys people and families. The option that has been invited in this Motion of compensating these former workers should be an option of last resort. Generally, junior officers prefer being in employment and earning their little Kshs9,000 peacefully every month and they plan for it. But when you retrench them, the things that I have tabulated actually happen. This is not just in Kakamega County, but even in other counties like Tharaka-Nithi, Nakuru and so forth. It is even worse in Siaya County. My neighbour is just across there. Mr. Speaker, Sir, with those many remarks, I beg to support."
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