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    "content": ". It is a backroom job, you just do it quietly. If they ask you for your direction, you give your advice to a Government officer. But you do not need to be flying around to show gusto and power because basically, you are actually a representative of a particular office in this country. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, there are many people who will look at this Bill and say that it is about power. Let me remind all of us that the Bible says in Mark Chapter 9 that whosoever wants to be the greatest must be as humble as a child. Let our work speak and not our positions. Let us not scare our voters. Why are we so concerned about being elected Governors? You are in your neighbourhood and you used to walk to your house and now you want to go to the same house with ten cars as if they will make a difference whereas you are the same person that was elected just the other day. You want to start saying that a Governor requires a political advisor and at the same time, he is a county executive committee member. There is a county executive member in charge of economics and planning and then you create another office called the economic advisor of the Governor. You have the County Secretary to the executive committee provided for in the Act and then you start saying that you need a chief of staff and a personal secretary We created devolution because Article 174 talks about the Government of the people. We wanted by all means to ensure that we are prudent in the manner in which we are going to use the resources in our rural areas. I would be so concerned if the Governor for Elgeyo-Marakwet County would have political and economic advisors besides his personal secretary while at Mseketo Hospital near Iten, not very far from the headquarters, for a mother to be admitted for delivery at that health centre, the husband must carry 20 litres of water. Why do we divert those resources that would have gone to salvage the life of a mother or a child or to change the lives of our people but instead just show grandiose and power? Why do we not use this money to build toilets that Sen. (Dr.) Khalwale has just talked about in Kakamega and let the place become an orderly place? Why do we not use"
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