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    "id": 1098314,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Cherargei",
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        "legal_name": "Cherarkey K Samson",
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    "content": "Madam Deputy Speaker, for the first time, counties are lamenting. Everybody is complaining of the slow disbursement of cash. I have said this before. I heard my colleagues saying yesterday that the way the CS of the National Treasury is running it with inefficiency and incompetence is very sad. He is violating Article 219 of the Constitution. If this country was functioning, he would have been sanctioned and surcharged. When you look under Article 226 (5)---I want to advise my brother, Ukur Yatani because he may imagine that he would only be surcharged. The Constitution provides that even after you have been the holder of an office, you can still be surcharged and followed up. Madam Deputy Speaker, the problem that we are facing in this country is delayed disbursement of cash to our counties. At the moment, the northern frontier counties are facing issues of famine and drought. This is both in parts of the North Rift and Northern Kenya. This money should have been disbursed in a timely manner. I think that the CS of the National Treasury in no uncertain terms has violated the Constitution. He has run what we are talking about inefficiently and in an incompetent way. There is also the issue of the Equalization Fund that should have gone to counties that are facing many challenges in terms of ensuring that we have hospitals, schools and other many other things. From where I stand, the CS of the National Treasury has run it down and ensured that this thing does not work. The counties are complaining year in and year out. He blames the Senate saying that we have delayed it. He has violated Article 229 of the law by bringing it after 38 days instead of 15 days. Madam Deputy Speaker, as I move to the second point, I think that the only time I have seen the CS of the National Treasury being serious is when he launched some political formation call the Upya Movement. I hope that he will be looking into serious issues like ensuring that they protect counties."
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