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    "content": "the right papers, then indeed, she or he has the right to be employed or to continue working within the county government. I also want to plead with the TA, because time is not on their side, considering the circumstances they are going through, to hasten and ensure that before the end of this year, the hundreds of Kenyans that we are talking about either go for Christmas as employees of the county governments or are returned to their mother Ministries. Madam Temporary Speaker, Ministries have also been merged. Therefore, it is upon the national Government to ensure that most workers are returned to the national Government after their mother Ministries have been identified. They should go back and be given their privileges or packages that will send them home in a peaceful manner. In this country, we have a challenge of not caring for one another. We only care when we are the ones being touched. That is when we get up and start fighting. We only care when it comes to our houses and we start fighting. But before it comes there, I will never care about my neighbour. This is one thing that has finished our country and that is why we also experience insecurity. Now, we are thinking of removing all these people and saying that they either go back to the national Government and a few can be absorbed. It is important to understand that we have young people who were also employed and they had contracts. What happens when the county governments decide that they are going back to the national Government when they had contracts with the particular counties? It is only the word “county” which we added, but most of the names of these local authorities remained the same. So, it is something we need to ask ourselves. Bringing in a name, does not mean that the framework or the policy changed. What the Constitution did was that it enhanced in terms of making sure that things now work better. When we talk of devolved governments, they are governments that have structures and that respect the law. That is what we want to tell the governors. As they read the Constitution, I believe somebody might take them to court and ask: “Did you employ me?” I think they should know that, at the moment, they have not employed anyone. They are seeing people who were within the local governments and those who came from the national Government. Madam Temporary Speaker, that is why I am even pleading to the national Government to have dialogue with the governors. As I speak, these are all Kenyans, some of whom have done very well, whereas others have done badly. If there are those who deserve to go to court and be jailed, then so be it, because it is also a chance to show that this is a county government and we are not going to allow corruption that was there to continue. Today, as I speak, we are losing a lot of revenue because of corruption. County workers have decided to duplicate receipts and collect revenue on their own and “eat” the money. If you look at the revenue that was being collected by the county governments, it has dropped beyond what the local authorities used to collect. This is because of the attitude the governors brought in. They were not ready to embrace these workers; instead, they wanted them to leave. The workers have now sabotaged the governors. That little revenue that they expected is no longer there. A good example is the Kisumu, Bungoma and Nakuru counties. When you look at the report from the Controller of Budget, it shows that the local revenue has really The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposes only. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate."
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