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    "id": 837675,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/837675/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Nyaribari Chache, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Richard Tong’i",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Richard Nyagaka Tongi",
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    "content": "There have been movements of people from the rural set up to urban centers. With the county governments now, we have seen the former municipal councils being upgraded. They are headquarters of the county government and that has a positive impact to our economy. However, there are things we must address as House. The first one is corruption. When we were devolving functions we might have forgotten and devolved corruption. There has been rampant corruption at the county level. People who have been employed are driving very big cars and own massive properties worth millions of shillings within a short period and that calls for audit of lifestyle. It does not make sense that somebody earning about Kshs 50,000 owns the kind of properties the people in the counties are having today. There is need for us as a House and as Kenyans to do soul searching so that we can find out what we have lost and where we missed the point, because our values as a society are that we take care of our neighbours. By taking care of our neighbours, we will also ensure that what has been put under our care will be taken care of so that we do not take advantage of it, at the expense of the community. I, therefore, support the amendment, but I think we need to do a lot more to ensure that there is value for money that we are getting as Kenyans. We must make sure that what has been devolved is adding value and changing people’s lives. That way our country will go to the next level and employment opportunities will be created for the youth who have been unemployed. About 55 per cent of Kenyans are in the youth bracket and that is a huge number. Most of them are unemployed and that is a cause to worry. Any concerned leader should be worried about that. These are young people who have a lot of energy and a lot of free time and we have not engaged them as much as we should, so that they can use their energies a lot more than they are doing at the moment."
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