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"speaker_name": "Hon. Mike Mbuvi Sonko",
"speaker_title": "The Governor of Nairobi City County",
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"content": "Government owes us over Kshs300 billion. I want to compliment the Senator for Nairobi, Sen. Sakaja. He was pushing for the release of these funds. I remember vividly that at some point we had a meeting in State House with the President, former Cabinet Secretary Henry Rotich and Principal Secretary Thugge. We have some undertakings and did a document, namely ‘Nairobi City County Financial Recovery Plan.’ Mr. Chairman, Sir, at some point, we agreed on a debt swap, meaning that the money that the national Government owes us - statutory debts from various government agencies like Kenya Revenue Authority (KRA) and we have a loan for Kshs4 billion from Kenya Commercial Bank (KCB)--- The Government was ready to pay this money on our behalf, so that we do a debt swap. Unfortunately, before that process was concluded, Cabinet Secretary Henry Rotich and Principal Secretary Thugge had some problems and were fired. This is a clear indication that during my time I had made progress inspecting the pending bills for Nairobi City County. Pursuant to Article 96 we have—"
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