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    "id": 1050069,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1050069/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. (Prof.) Ongeri",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 124,
        "legal_name": "Samson Kegeo Ongeri",
        "slug": "samson-ongeri"
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    "content": "procedures. The penalties that are extra expenses to the county governments which need not be. There are penalties applied which cannot be lifted. County governments must pay due diligence to these statutory deductions so that they are remitted in time without attracting the penalties that usually come and eventually end up with a loss. Sometimes some have gone for court adjudication, which has become very expensive because the county governments have had to hire lawyers to meet these obligations. That is an additional cost that needs not have been incurred. It was not budgeted for, but was appearing distorting the books of accounts of that county. We have heard - and I think comments have been made - about pending bills. Once any county has pending bills even any prospective investor will look at their magnitude at first sight and shy away from investment. This is because they are not able to pay and get returns they expect to. Some of the contractors have perished or been liquidated because of non-payment by the county governments. Some of them are very small operators and have suffered a great loss due to non-payment of pending bills."
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