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    "id": 1011885,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1011885/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Wambua",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 13199,
        "legal_name": "Enoch Kiio Wambua",
        "slug": "enoch-kiio-wambua"
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    "content": "Mr. Speaker, Sir, what baffles me is that there are counties that are able to continue paying salaries to their staff without delays irrespective of whether or not The County Allocation Revenue Bill has passed. There are counties where a slight delay in the passage of The County Allocation Revenue Bill or disbursement occasions long delays in payment of salaries. It is incumbent upon governors to ensure that they come up with innovative ways of ensuring that, at the very least the payment of salaries to staff is not affected by technical delays in the passage of The County Allocation Revenue Act (CARA) or disbursements from the Treasury. Mr. Speaker, Sir, I have had conversations with some governors who have gone out of their way to have deals with commercial banks, where counties are depositing their money. They have established standing orders with those commercial banks that at the clock of 26th of every month, all salaries are processed whether there is money in the accounts or not. Our governors need to be innovative. The Chairperson of the Council of Governors (CoG), hon. Oparanya, has a default setting that whenever there is a problem, he just thinks about closing counties. He must think beyond that because he has no capacity to close any county. Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir."
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