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    "content": "I would like to speak to the issue of efficiency. If we tighten the noose, our county governments will become very efficient in collection of revenue at source. Today, as we speak, there is an authentic report penned by the Controller of Budget who is saying that the defunct local authorities were more efficient in collecting revenue than these county governments. County governments have so much money at their disposal and have even forgotten the need to tighten the loopholes of revenue at source with the kind of success that the defunct local authorities were doing. Madam Temporary Speaker, I am, therefore, of the opinion that this is the time for this Senate to exert itself so that whatever it will cost, even if it is retrenchment, let us feel that pain knowing that some of these workers who will be retrenched, once you create development the projects that will emerge from that will create more jobs than the few people who are going to be retrenched. I want to speak on this issue of retrenchment and I want to agree with the Leader of Majority that the governments we have had for the last 50 years had been so wasteful and inefficient that today the Government of President Uhuru is now being faced with the painful decision of having to retrench people. It is very painful indeed. I want to go on record as “ mtetezi wa wanyonge” that before a single civil servant is retrenched, the President should order an audit to get rid of all ghost workers first. Once you have the genuine non-ghost workers, you can retrench. As he retrenches, I will be the first person after he has got rid of ghost workers, to support the Government in retrenching people who are deadwoods. There are many people who sit in offices from morning to evening and if you ask them what they have done the whole day, they have no idea. This even applies to some Members of Parliament. Some Members of Parliament have no idea what they do in the National Assembly. I am impressed in this Senate that everybody comes and we pull together. I look at what is going on in the National Assembly and some of the pronouncements we hear, I wonder whether they ask themselves what they have done to earn the big salary. Madam Temporary Speaker, when I was running my medical practice, I was charging a very small consultation fee of Kshs500 per person. It used to take me long donkey hours to make money. Now that I am here, I strive to ensure that I do something. I want those people who are not doing anything to be sent away. If those positions require that they attract people who can work, you bring young graduates from universities to work for us. On the issue of retrenchment, if the Government will proceed, I will be persuading them to reconsider the Kshs480,000 they want to pay the retrenched civil servant. They used to call it a golden handshake. This is not enough. You are killing that family. The Government will have to spend slightly more money since they are prepared to pay things like Anglo Leasing and so on, it means---"
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