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    "id": 943939,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. M. Kajwang’",
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        "legal_name": "Moses Otieno Kajwang'",
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    "content": "per cent are people who work for inspectorate, bloggers and people who used to campaign for the governors. They have been put on a manual Excel payroll. This is a big risk and we have already seen that salaries are already taking close to 40 per cent of the money we send to counties. We need to deal with this and the solution lies in the Capacity Assessment and Rationalization for the Public Sector (CARPS) exercise, again, where we spent millions of public funds. I remember it was championed by the current Governor for Kirinyaga when she was in her other life. Unfortunately, after spending millions of shillings on this exercise, governors have kept the reports in their study rooms. We have made recommendations that the CARPS Report be implemented. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, legal fees is also an issue that cuts across a number of counties. Last week when we had a debate, under several points of information, the House learnt some of the tricks that counties and very few wayward lawyers are using to fleece counties. I believe that the legal profession is one that is bound by a very serious code of conduct. Therefore, we do not believe that those people who are conniving with counties to levy very huge legal fees are on the right path of the profession. A report that we brought here for the Financial Year 2013/2014, which is yet to be voted on was for Nairobi City County. If you look at the values of legal fees for that county, there will be a red flag; you will know that something is wrong. We have made certain general recommendations that each county must engage a county attorney and establish a department or a section that will advise the governors on legal issues. We realized that some counties found themselves in trouble because of their own impunity. A governor wakes up one day and fires somebody without following the due process. Governors must follow the due process because any shortcut is expensive, not to the governor as a person, but the county and country as a whole. There are cases where county government officials delay to pay dues to advocates, and they go to court and get very punitive orders. Sometimes you are convinced that there is some collusion between the insiders and the advocates because we have seen awards of Kshs13 million mutating into Kshs100 million, and the governors are forced to pay. Even though we do not have evidence, we get the feeling that after the money hits the accounts, it is distributed back to the people who approved the payment. We have made certain recommendations on that."
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