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    "content": "kind of things that happened. We ended up where we are. The elephant in the room is: how do we make devolution in its current structure work? Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, we then arrived a new enemy; the Office of the President and now the current regime. Article 17 of the Transitional Clauses of the Constitution states:- “Within five years after the effective date, the national Government shall restructure the system of administration commonly known as the provincial administration to accord with and respect the system of devolved government established under this Constitution.” People then sat in Harambee House and thought that to transition provincial administration to align with devolution was equal to giving it a new name; just repaint it from provincial administration. A Provincial Commissioner (PC) becomes a Regional Coordinator, a District Commissioner becomes a County Commissioner and they just run the same thing. Sometimes when I listen to a lady called Ms. Sara Serem talking about the wage bill – there is a community in Western region called the Batachoni, they say when you hear such a thing, Amarwi kakhaba amatakho wekhalira . It is not obscene, it is serious intelligence. Directly translated it means I wish ears were buttocks so that I sit on them,so that I do not hear this nonsense. It makes a lot of sense because people say that when they are completely disgusted with what is being said; that, I would rather not hear this at all. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, the national Government rechristened the provincial administration and set up a parallel structure. Devolution has another structure. In the counties, there is a miserable man called the county commissioner. He has no budget. He is busy every morning at the governor’s office begging for fuel. All he does is to sit in counties peddling fitina from morning to evening. They do nothing. So, you get a governor who is checkmated by a county commissioner. You have a sub-county administrator checkmated by a sub-county commissioner. You have a ward administrator checkmated by the assistant county commissioner. Then you go further down where you have a village administrator checkmated by a chief and an assistant chief. All these people are earning public salaries, doing the same thing and Sarah Serem is busy telling us that we must control the public wage bill. How do you control the public wage bill when you are employing people to sit in offices, read newspapers and peddle fitina? In the morning, Sen. (Prof.) Lesan’s graph is very high, in the afternoon it is very low. The next day, Sen. (Prof.) Lonyangapuo is un-electable, while nobody can beat him the next day. That is all they do the whole day. Fitina, fitina, fitina and nothing else. Mr. Temporary Speaker Sir, we got it all wrong. Waswahili wanasema: Siku"
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