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    "id": 469650,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Sang",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 907,
        "legal_name": "Stephen Kipyego Sang",
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    "content": "Thank you, Madam Temporary Speaker. I want to join my colleagues in supporting this Motion. I think, as my colleagues have mentioned, the responsibilities bestowed upon Members of the County Assemblies is huge. We, therefore, need to facilitate them. The Salaries and Remuneration Commission is setting up Members of the County Assembly so that they fail. If you give huge responsibilities to a county assembly member and then deny them the resources required to carry out the responsibilities, in that sense, you are playing politics. I want to join my colleagues in asking the members of the Salaries and Remuneration Commission to be reasonable. The reasons that we needed a salaries commission is because we needed to rationalize salaries. However, we are in a situation where the Salaries and Remunerations Commission is creating more problems than we expected. So, it is important for all of us to support this agenda. I propose that since we have a Devolution Committee in this House then we can task the Committee to engage with this matter a little bit more so that we can deal with the issue once and for all and get the county assemblies back to work. We have seen county assembly members, despite the fact that they are earning meager resources and have not earned their first salaries, doing a great job. We have seen them rejecting some of the County Executive nominees. We have seen them doing thorough jobs in terms of vetting. We need to motivate them and ensure that we can sustain this kind of performance by the members of the county assembly. We, therefore, need as a House to stand with them. While we still negotiate behind the scenes for our salaries, we need to be bold and come out openly and help members of the county assembly to press the Salaries and Remuneration Commission to review their salaries and provide them with mileage transport/allowances. Some of them travel up to 200 kilometres. Let us help the county assembly members so that we can have county assemblies playing their rightful role of oversight. You cannot play an oversight role if you are earning Kshs79,000 and yet the person you are supposed to check is earning close to over Kshs1 million. We need to be realistic so as to work together."
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