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    "content": "everybody controls one or two acres, it would have been more ideal to plant it together and manage it like an estate. They would not be facing the kind of challenges they are facing today. These are retrogressive cultural practices that can only be challenged by statistics. When we present the figures to the citizens, they educate them. With the establishment of the office of the County Statistician, they will be to understand these figures. One of the things that I have been asking myself is that, each year as we read the Budget and Treasury releases the reports of our Gross Domestic Product (GDP); by what figure the economy is growing and what our inflation rate is. When shall we get such figures for counties? By and large, we need to get to a point where governors cannot be assessed by the number of classrooms they have built but they will be asked how much economic growth they have brought to the county. These are not things you will be able to do as county governments are set up right now. When you have good and proper statistics, you will know how much revenue has been generated from a particular county and what the economic value of a certain county is and how much the economy of that county has grown during the tenure of a particular individual. Has he spurred growth or not? Abstract feelings where you say somebody has failed or succeeded depending on your own perceptions will be a thing of the past. Thanks to the good intentions of this Bill. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, there is something I feel it will be wrong if I complete my contribution without mentioning it. Politically motivated development agenda will be a thing of the past with the passing of this Bill. You will be able to question a governor and ride on particular information that is readily available to you. You can ask them why they want to sink a borehole in an area that does not need such kind of a facility. Sometimes leadership comes with sacrifice and as a leader, you need to do something that is not popular but you know for posterity, this is the right thing to do. If we have these statistics, it will become easy for us to do it. If we do not have the statistics available, somebody will make a decision because he feels that is the popular thing. If I take the county budget and say I want to empower the youth and women and split the budget half, dish out money and things like that, that will be unfortunate. For those many reasons, I do support."
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