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    "content": "I congratulate them for their initiative because this is a very important issue. I have said on the Floor of this House in the last Parliament that one way that many resources in the counties are being fleeced are through hidden service charges particularly in the service sector. Sadly, even those of us in the legal profession have been used as a conduit to siphon resources that come from county governments. If you look at the amount of money that is sometimes paid as legal fees through the Council of Governors (CoG), it is extremely ridiculous. The Senate Minority Leader is whispering to me that even individual counties pay high legal fees too. As you are aware, the Advocates Remuneration Order does not limit the maximum that you pay to your client. It only states the minimum. Therefore, corrupt and unscrupulous individuals operating around counties are now taking advantage of that window that was meant to provide a negotiation between a client and advocate to inflate the legal fee with the intention of benefitting those who pay those legal fees. Mr. Speaker, Sir, you will realize that those fees, just like in the case of Murang’a Petition on insurance, the same situation applies in insurance. Depending on how you negotiate with an insurance company, you can get a premium of up to 2 per cent or 10 per cent. It all depends; if you have agreed with the insurance company or the insurance agent. We must investigate this issue. The relevant committee to which this petition will be committed to – I suspect it is the Committee on Finance and Budget – must come back with legislative proposals on how to curb this menace so that the people of this Republic cannot find themselves in a situation where the legal fees and other service charges are paid more quickly than money meant for hospital equipment, roads and providing water for the citizens. Therefore, I totally agree with the Petition. We do not know the facts but they will unfold once the Chairperson of the relevant committee and his team has looked into the matter. In fact, these ten petitioners are the kind of people that once this work has been done and it leads to legislative proposals, they are the right kind of people to receive a Head of State Commendation and not people who because of---"
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