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    "id": 887024,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/887024/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Bondo, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Gideon Ochanda,",
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        "legal_name": "Gideon Ochanda Ogolla",
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    "content": "lines in counties. Some have four because they inherited former local authorities. That is a civil service with their own collective bargaining agreement and own payment arrangement which is higher than the ones of civil servants that have been seconded. This is the other parallel line. Then, there are those who were hired by the first governors. That is another parallel line. There are now those hired by the second generation governors, those coming in for the first time. So, we are talking about four different parallel service lines. What is happening in this country that we cannot put all those lines into one clear service line for county governments? This is where all the money is going to. The Chair of the Council of Governors confessed to the Committee that he has more than 100 drivers who were brought in by virtue of being drivers of the former defunct local authorities and there is no way he can chase them away and yet, they earn more money and many of them are illiterate. Why spend money in that kind of direction when we know we have a big problem? So, the wage bill is a big issue particularly at the county level. We need to put together all the four different parallel civil service lines into one such that we can have more money for purposes of services and for developing our areas."
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