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    "id": 1063370,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Shiyonga",
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        "legal_name": "Masitsa Naomi Shiyonga",
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    "content": "Thank you, Madam Temporary Speaker, for giving me this opportunity to contribute to this Bill. I want to start by welcoming the newly elected Senator, Sen. Abdul Haji, to this House. Feel most welcome and we are happy to be with you. I would also like to congratulate the Standing Committee on Finance and Budget that has made sure that this Bill is discussed in this House and passed because it is a Bill that holds together the nation and the counties through the national revenue allocation. Madam Temporary Speaker, it cannot go without me discussing about the corruption that we have in this country and the disbursement of funds. When we have late disbursement of funds, especially those that are going to the county government, then it will definitely open up a new tap, where corruption takes place. Counties get loopholes of making sure that they fill up these pending bills by using the other money that comes in, probably from grants or donations they get from partners. When this money comes in late, they have another avenue of using or misusing it. It is high time that we speak to this country through one voice. As much as the Senate has used its time fighting to make sure that funds go to the county governments and be utilised in development structures that have been put in place, the money is not supposed to be used by governors or people in the counties for their assets or their own development. It is also not money for personal use. It is money that should be used to improve the livelihoods of the people in the counties. Madam Temporary Speaker, I want to reiterate the point of us having this money doing the right thing. The recommendations that have been passed in this Bill are the right ones and should go together with what we are discussing here. If we entertain"
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