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    "id": 1060119,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1060119/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Molo, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Kuria Kimani",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Francis Kuria Kimani",
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    "content": "Pending bills have been a great concern to this House. It is an illegality. Year in, year out, we must discuss a Supplementary Budget to approve payment of pending bills. When I served in the Public Accounts Committee (PAC), the question of pending bills would be flagged off by the Auditor-General every year. We would sit down and ask why we always had pending bills. Pending bills lock finances of business people. That is why business people no longer want to work with the Government, unless one is a multi-billionaire. A young person cannot possibly take a bank loan at 14 per cent interest rate per annum to do a government project expecting to get paid upon completion of the work. Pending bills relating to the National Youth Service (NYS) and the Kenya Prison Correctional Service have been a discussion in this House since I joined Parliament in 2017. So, what is happening? Why do accounting officers refuse to distribute the funds towards payment of pending bills?"
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