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    "speaker_name": "Bondo, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Gideon Ochanda",
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    "content": "paid so highly because of the bargains that they had had before. That is exactly why they are saying a driver hired by the moribund authorities earns more money than a veterinary doctor who took seven years studying at the university. So, they are running four different, parallel Civil Service lines. The inherited staff from the local authorities, those from the line ministries by the time, then there are the hirelings of the first governors and the hirelings of the second governors. Then we talk about the wage bill and we know this is happening. How comes somebody cannot come up and say we put a stop to this? We know very clearly that the ministries have offloaded what was in the provinces, districts and divisions downwards. How comes their wage bill or Recurrent Expenditure remains the same? What are we doing? If you have offloaded in that kind of arrangement—they offloaded staff, stationery to the counties—how come the same ministry or department that now only has staff and personnel in Nairobi still has the same or more cost in Recurrent Expenditure? There is a big problem. Let me end at that because my vice-chair is trying to interrupt me very badly. He wanted to disrupt my flow of thought. What I am trying to say is that we are living a lie as a country. Everybody is very busy cheating the other. They have cheated our leadership and the leadership is cheating the entire country. Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker."
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