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    "speaker_name": "Dr. Eseli",
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        "legal_name": "David Eseli Simiyu",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, for giving me a chance to support this Motion on the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister and Ministry of Local Government. First, I congratulate the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Local Government for presenting this Vote and the energy he exhibited during the campaigns for the referendum. I would also like to congratulate the Permanent Secretary who is very able. I am sure we will see some changes in this Ministry. However, I would like to say a few things. When you find a situation where clerks and treasurers are changed day in, day out and there is musical chairs all the time, there is a problem. Something should be done about that. You end up without continuity of work or institutional memory. There is definitely a problem and that is why we have frequent changes of clerks and treasurers of councils. If it is not corruption, then there must be something else that causes it. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, there is a problem in the local authorities in the sense that when the CDF has built a road or, maybe, the Ministry of Roads through the Kenya Rural Roads Authority (KeRRA) has built a road, they run very quickly with a chain and start collecting money from poor youngsters who have got their boda boda motorcycles which are on loan. The councils collect money from the boda boda operators and yet they are unable to service their loans. So, the councils are part of the people who create poverty amongst our youths by collecting money that they should not collect. This is because they do not give a percentage of those collections towards roads maintenance. In fact, they end up making the youths fear going on the road and remain poor instead of assisting them to improve their livelihoods. The councils collect monies because of their by-laws. There should be some control so that as the councils collect money, some of it should go back into the maintenance of those roads rather than reaping where they did not sow. The other issue is on bursaries. I believe that the LATF should give some money towards bursaries. In the whole of Bungoma County where I come from, I have not heard of any money from the LATF that goes towards bursaries. There seems to be something wrong with the administration of those bursaries. Finally, the Ministry should tighten the allocation of plots in market centres and rural/urban areas. There seems to be a lot of underhand dealings that lead to the unplanned centres that we come across. The underhand dealings have meant that there are no utility plots set aside on rural urban centres and this leads to unplanned development. With those few remarks, I wish to support this Motion."
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