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    "id": 1060095,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1060095/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Navakholo, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Emmanuel Wangwe",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Emmanuel Wangwe",
        "slug": "emmanuel-wangwe"
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    "content": "that the Departmental Committee on Finance and National Planning should look at as we go through the Supplementary Estimates. Hon. Speaker, in the Supplementary Estimates, Members need to note the issue of pending bills. A solution needs to be found to eliminate pending bills. This can only be done through the Public Finance Management (PFM) Act (2012). It is important that, as Members discuss the Estimates, they need to know that pending bills are on the increase. Today we are talking of about Kshs150 billion in terms of pending bills only, which have been awarded by courts. How about those other pending bills which have not gone through the courts and are due for payment? Therefore, it is important that we look at the issue of pending bills in line with the Public Finance Management Act, 2012, so that we can push the National Treasury officials when they are doing their budgets. Let them move quickly to consider the issues of pending bills. There are also issues of prioritisation in terms of completion of projects, whereby we do not want projects to continue piling. New projects are coming up and old ones are not getting completed. Let us look at the issue in which they have allocated the projects in line with how they have been started and which are the other new ones that are coming up. With those many remarks, I second. I thank you."
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