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    "content": "When you look at the Revenue Bill today, you will find that commissions are going to spend Kshs13 billion for the Financial Year 2013/2014. All of it is going on salaries. Madam Serem is now taking us back to the dark days of KANU when she used to work in Telkom. I am sorry to say that they would go to start businesses and that is what she wants the county assembly members to do. She wants them to come up with business of procuring. It is the same people who are the managers of the affairs of the county assemblies. So, how would they deliver those services? What Serem has lacked is what we call relationship between the arms of Government. Parliament is the third arm of Government and commissions are the fourth arm of Government, so there is a way in which people can dialogue. If you feel you want to cut wages then let us start from the highest, that is, the President. Then you can talk to the county assemblies and say you have reduced salaries of every person within the Government and the public service. When we look at those county assemblies, you even wonder why people left their professions to come and give service to Kenyans. The civil society has played a role in this country, but now, I think their role is over. They are afraid that the work they used to do in every region has been taken over by the county governments. Therefore, they have found another avenue to start fighting the same devolution, so that they can have an avenue to do their work. I beg to support. It is time to teach Madam Serem what she needs to know."
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