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    "content": "I can tell you that many Senators we have canvased with here will tell you that in their counties, people sit in offices as political reward. However, if you think about their addition to the economy of their counties, it is zero. In the counties we are rewarding incompetent people with jobs. We keep telling the President to sack national Government officers who are not performing. In the same manner, our governors must gather the courage to think about the future of their legacies and not just rewarding incompetent people with jobs. They can reward them in other ways but in terms of service delivery to our counties, we must tell our governors to be courageous, particularly second term governors. I see many senators who are here, their governors are serving second terms. We must push them because they can be lacklustre. We must push them to ensure that services are still being given to our people and that the county governments are not going to be reward centres where people are being rewarded without service being offered. I hope these are some of the things we will audit seriously when we go for the Devolution Conference next month because the conference has become deceptive as we progress to new ideas, but those ideas must be seen to be implemented. The same way the Senate Committee of Delegated Legislation does a good job to look at delegated legislation from the national Government and sometimes proposals from the Council of Governors. All these people; men and women, both in the two committee are competent enough and they have done a good job. However, I want to request our colleagues - because this is a sessional committee and I can see we have retained these people for two years consecutively - they must be courageous enough to perform their work this year. They must complete that which they think and have a dream of in that committee and be ready to give way for other people to serve in those committees, so that they do not become part of fixtures to the committee. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, some of these committees are so competitive and I do not know why people want to be there. I think they are really passionate about serving. The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate."
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