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    "id": 428444,
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    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Ms.) Kiptui",
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        "legal_name": "Grace Jemutai Kiptui",
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    "content": "Hon. Speaker, thank you for the opportunity. I rise to support the Motion, though grudgingly, as my colleagues have said, because of the worry that the governors may not utilize the funds for the development of the counties as it was intended. According to me, we are saying that there is a runaway wage bill in Kenya but the solution is not doing away with women leaders of this country. The solution is not to contract the Budget but to make more money that will be used for our development. The women of Kenya have only had the only chance to be in the political decision making in the country. I hear my colleagues debating about sending away women - those nominated and those elected - to solve the problem, but that is not the solution. The best thing to do is to make sure that the amount of wastage of money that this Government or previous Governments have experienced does not have cumulative effect of a runaway wage bill. Secondly, there is a lot of duplication. There are so many people in this country doing the same job, employed for the same thing and they are not delivering. If we do not have production, how are we going to have a lot of money to pay everybody? Even if we were to talk of retrenching people, it would be a very expensive affair; it would demoralize people. We need to look at the issues of stopping money leakages, and ensure that we employ people where there is need for them to work but not for political convenience."
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