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    "content": "I would like to ask the Controller of Budget, the Auditor-General and all the institutions that look after revenue taken to counties, that at a time like this, counties should not be hiring personnel, indeed, Waswahili wanasema ni kipindi cha lala salama . If it is kipindi cha lala salama, what else can you do at a time of elections with a new workforce? Leave it to the next regime. Whether you head that regime or somebody else, a bloated workforce is not going to help the county. I am really happy today with Gov. Kinuthia Mbugua of Nakuru County who has tried very hard to reduce the workforce in Nakuru County. Gov. Kinuthia Mbugua appreciates this problem and definitely he is not making life complicated to Nakuru County residents by hiring any other workforce he does not critically need. I do hope that this issue is taken very seriously by the next Senate so that some law or Bill is passed to regulate this matter because it can cripple development in the counties and too much money will go to Recurrent Expenditure. It may be painstaking to do, but in the final analysis, it is not in the interest of the residents of that county. Let me also say that the relationship between the National Assembly and the Senate depends on two people. Let us be frank. Those people are first the President; the head of Executive who obviously would be in very close relation with the Speaker and the Leader of Majority in that House. Unless the President can give good directions constitutionally based on the relationship between the two Houses, very little will be done. We are sorry about the case of the Bills that went straight to the President and he signed them into law not understanding that according to the Constitution, those Bills should first come to the Senate. That was a political move by the President which he should not have taken at all. Secondly, the Speaker of the National Assembly should be somebody who is civil in his relationship with the Speaker of the Senate, to avoid these travesties of Bills passing through the National Assembly without coming to the Senate. I appeal to the next President, obviously my dear friend and colleague, ‘President Raila Amolo Odinga”, that he will behave much better than his colleague is doing at the moment. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, we must have people who have a deep belief in devolution heading critical institutions of Government in the national Government and the counties. The Ministry of Devolution and Planning should not be in a position where it represents first and foremost the interest of the national Government. It must represent both because it is said that we have two levels of government in this country, separate but interdependent. Thus, interdependence must be provided in the Ministry of Devolution and Planning as the fulcrum of the relationship between the two levels of Government. I believe that when we form the Government, we shall lead by example, making sure that this is done. As we are heading towards the elections, I want to appeal to the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) to sign a code of conduct as it did with us candidates, the security forces and all organs of Government. It falls short of observing free and fair elections when the organs of state behave in a manner that they become partial in elections."
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