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    "id": 1012529,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Suba South, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. John Mbadi",
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        "legal_name": "John Mbadi Ng'ong'o",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Speaker. Allow me to also support this Motion to approve the County Allocation of Revenue Bill. It is regrettable that we are in the month of October, more than three months into the financial year and today is when we are likely to finally pass the County Allocation of Revenue Bill. I hope the President assents to it because we do not direct the President. He may not assent to it as quickly as we would have thought. He may even return it back with a memorandum. Nothing stops the President from doing that. That means that even as at the end of today, you can effectively say that we are not sure when the counties will receive the first allocations for the Financial Year 2020/2021. That is regrettable and is a sign of failure in terms of leadership of this country. We are all into leadership and we must take responsibility collectively, but again also apportion blame to the leaders who are responsible for this kind of mess that we find ourselves in. I assume that our county staff in our 47 counties have not been paid their salaries for the months of July, August and September. How can people survive for three months without receiving their salaries? Even if the counties went ahead and borrowed money from banks, our budget does not provide for financial costs of our budget. So, how will they pay the charges that the commercial banks will levy on the loans that are borrowed? We are exposing our counties to total failure, total crisis and total collapse. I think that this is something that as the leadership of this country, we must speak against and ask the Senate to be vigilant next time to make sure that the County Allocation of Revenue Bill is passed in the first two weeks of the financial year. This is so that by the end of July, all counties would have received the money. That is not asking for too much from the Senate. That is just asking for the bare minimum in terms of discharge of responsibilities. As Hon. Kimunya said, up to now, over Ksh79 billion in terms of shareable revenue would have been disbursed to the counties. That would have included the salaries and other recurrent expenditure which would have spurred economic growth at those levels. We know that once The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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