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    "id": 887068,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/887068/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kiharu, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Ndindi Nyoro",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 13370,
        "legal_name": "Samson Ndindi Nyoro",
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    "content": " Thank you very much, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, for giving me the opportunity to contribute. I rise to support this Motion by the able Chair of the Budget and Appropriations Committee. I have to commend the Committee I sit in, that is, the Public Accounts Committee (PAC). It is because of the report of PAC that now we are able to get a new amount in terms of the sharable revenues, especially the monies that go to our devolved units in the name of counties. I want my contribution to dwell more on how we use county money and even how we spend the national revenues. I have listened to many Members and I concur with them that over 70 per cent of the money that we take to our counties goes to recurrent expenditure. When you talk about recurrent expenditure, most of this 70 percent goes into paying salaries for the many workers that are based in our county governments. If you analyse the employees of our counties, I dare say without blinking of an eye that most of those workers are actually a product of patronage. The reason why we have a ballooning workforce in terms of the national Government and also in the counties is because most of the employment that happens in most developed economies like Kenya, and we have trickled down the same to our counties, is never based on need. Employment of any expertise is not based on demand. Most of the employment that happens in our country at the national level and also in our counties is purely a product of patronage. This is especially if we talk about our governors and the Executive. Most of this patronage is based on kin selection, that is, nepotism. I dare say that most of the people you find in our counties, and I am sure they have also borrowed heavily from what happens up here, is based on who knows who. Therefore, the work and the positions that are created are not necessarily based on service. Most of it is based on creating a position for this or the other person. The other side of patronage that is bedevilling our counties is based on reciprocal truism, where you now campaign for this person and they have to scratch your back. If you are to do an"
}