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    "id": 1051810,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1051810/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Kibiru",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 13196,
        "legal_name": "Charles Reubenson Kibiru",
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    "content": "The Committee noted the downward trend. I would like to look at the county own-source revenue. It is sad that we noticed what the County Public Accounts and Investments Committee (CPAIC) has also noted that there is a trend of decline in the own-source revenue collections by the counties. This poses a risk of county budgeting and eventual service delivery. Counties continued to accumulate pending bills. One of the reasons we hired Sen. Mutula Kilonzo Jnr., to be our legal representative in the leadership meeting which I hope had a good verdict is because we need to amend the Public Finance Management (PFM) Act. Some of the issues we are trying to address in the PFM include how counties do their budget. They have a wish list and they put it all in their own-source revenue. A county says they will collect Kshs800 million and in essence, for the last eight years, they have never hit Kshs350 million. One of the recommendations we have made is that counties budget based on the average collection of the last three years. Then we will not have people with a wish list for whatever reason, which do not benefit the citizens of this country."
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