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    "id": 908852,
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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Olekina",
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        "legal_name": "Ledama Olekina",
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    "content": "when the governors come in, they want to bring people who can help them deliver on their mandate. The issue of favoritism on the people who were working with the governor during the campaign period can be interpreted differently. Therefore, I urge that as we look at these issues, we try to put ourselves in the position of both the governor and also that citizen. May be that citizen qualified to be given a job. However, because they objected or did not support the governor when he or she was running for the elections, they are sidelined. Therefore, we need to ask ourselves broadly what we can do in order to protect and ensure that when a governor is elected, he or she serves all the people; those who supported him or her and the ones who did not. For county that has about 600,000, you will find that professionals would want to go back there and serve. That is why when they try to seek employment in their county government, they are hit by challenges of nepotism when they realised that everyone - whether it is true or not- is related to the governor in one way or the other. Madam Temporary Speaker, so that we can deal with these issues broadly, I plead with you not to commit this Petition to only one Committee. Yesterday, the Petition was committed to the Committee on Devolved Government and Intergovernmental Relations. However, there are issues of fiducial responsibility which deal with financial management which the CPAIC interrogates on a daily basis. I plead with you to consider a way where two committees can look at these issues so that where there is a problem, we can have a solution. Otherwise, before you realise, on a daily basis, we will be getting petitions from the 47 counties."
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