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    "id": 1064523,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Suba South, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. John Mbadi",
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        "id": 110,
        "legal_name": "John Mbadi Ng'ong'o",
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    "content": "of revenue shall be transferred to the county without undue delay and without deduction. When we hear that some county staff have to endure five months with no salary, I cannot help to wonder: Have the National Treasury’s staff also gone without salary? And since when did it become okay to delay county disbursements such that even salaries cannot be paid for almost half a year? Even if revenue collection has significantly under-performed, provisions of the PFM Act on cash management allow for short-term borrowing to meet urgent demands such as payment of salaries. There is no reason whatsoever for county employees to go without pay for months on end. It is high time that we understood some of the provisions in law. For example, when you talk of ‘of which’ in the Division of Revenue Bill, it should be understood what that actually means. The Bill has always included ‘of which’ in the national Government share of revenue, meaning that the list of conditional allocations to counties is included in the national Government share of the revenue. So, even though we include a schedule indicating a breakdown of those conditional grants, they are part and parcel of the national Government share of revenue. The listing of conditional allocations under the term ‘of which’ is merely for transparency purposes - just to explain what exactly are conditional grants. For example, we have been talking about the road maintenance levy and the user fee forgone. Why then would a judge rule that conditional grants are not part of shared revenue? I have serious reservations with the court’s understanding of the PFM Act. And I really do not know whether we have financial consultants in courts to advise our legal teams to understand what exactly some of the terminologies that are used in the PFM Act mean. The court has further directed that conditional grants be distributed through the county revenue fund, but how is the question... Hon. Speaker, I can see my time is up."
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