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    "content": "county governments to pay their staff or to deliver services which are very badly waited for by Kenyans. We are all aware of what happened at the Kenya Airways. It was virtually on the verge of bankruptcy. This Government injected Kshs6 billion to pay off the debtors of owed by the Kenya Airways in the process of restructuring it so that we could attract strategic partners to come and run the company. Without us paying those old debts - if we allowed them to continue being carried by Kenya Airways – we would not be talking about Kenya Airways today. We did a similar restructuring for the Kenya Power and Lighting Company in 2003. This one owed debts of Kshs16 billion. The Government had to come in and take up preference shares and give the Kenya Power and Lighting Company (KPLC) a lease of life so as to provide electricity to Kenyans. Time has come for this Government to do the same for the new county governments. We cannot afford to saddle them with debts which are not their own. The new county governments are not county councils. These are new creatures of the Constitution and have no business with what happened before they came in. This Motion should be supported by all the Senators who want to implement devolution in this country. We should scrutinize the budgets coming to this House very seriously because many of them are skewed. I have seen, for instance, what is being discussed in Meru. The budget that was prepared with the support of the TA officials gives Kshs300 million to construct a mansion for the Governor but gives zero to the Speaker of the County Assembly of Meru. I beg to second."
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