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    "id": 474080,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Wetangula",
    "speaker_title": "The Senator Minority Leader",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 210,
        "legal_name": "Moses Masika Wetangula",
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    "content": " Madam Temporary Speaker, I support the Bill. I also join those who wish to bring some amendments. We should work relative to what we see in the national Government. In my view, for the sponsors of the Bill and I can see the young Sen. Sang here, the ratio of 40 per cent to 60 per cent maybe reasonable so that we have 60 per cent going to recurrent expenditure and 40 per cent going to development. I say this for the simple reason that the philosophy behind devolution was for development to reach areas that were hitherto unreachable in this country. There are many areas in this county that were completely forgotten, ignored and became no-go zones. Politicians from the national level only turned up in such areas to compromise poor villagers and harvest votes. They used to play the ethnic card, the sub-ethnic cards, bring the conglomerates together calling themselves KAMATUSA or wafugaji even when they are not wafugaji . Immediately after elections, those people are forgotten and they will come back after five years. We devolved to bring money and development down to the grassroots. Today, the level of obscenity and opulence witnessed in the counties is revolting. When you go to the counties, you will find a ward administrator in the village is being paid a higher salary than a DS in the national Government. They have a salary and house allowance even when they are living in their own homes. The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposes only. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate."
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