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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. B.K. Bett",
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        "legal_name": "Benard Kipkirui Bett",
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    "content": "in the polytechnics, there will be teachers. So, we are expecting to have reasonable allocations towards the Ministry of Education, Science and Technology so that we can have more teachers. We should also revise the payment for the teachers. On matters of the wage bill, I want to indicate that it is a concern to all of us. There is a Report by the Auditor-General’s Office that we are losing about Kshs300 billion to corruption-related practices. We are insisting that the Government should put in place sufficient measures to curb that problem, so that we do not have corruption-related practices taking away much of the resources that are received in terms of our revenues. We also have the Constitution that we passed in 2010. All of us have a duty to look into it so that, if there are some grey areas which are contributing to this wage bill problem, we can address them as a country. As far as the counties are concerned, we expect them to be equitable in the way they are doing their business. That is in terms of ensuring that all the constituencies are fairly supported even in terms of employment. We realize that some of our counties, like my county, if there are employment opportunities of up to 400 vacancies, they are short-listing less than 30 persons per constituency. We are sending the message to governors and the county governments that they are supposed to be as fair as possible in distributing resources and vacancies to all the constituencies. With those few remarks, thank you. Even as we contribute to this, all of us, from our different constituencies, should be given equal treatment in terms of contributions on the Floor of the House."
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