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    "id": 1112641,
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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Cherargei",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Cherarkey K Samson",
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    "content": "my county, you have to be politically correct to be paid. This is the service that has been provided to the county government and the people of that specific county government. The people who are suffering are people who come from that locality within the same county. These are people who have done construction of ECDs. You might have a pending bill of Kshs1.5 million which you incurred building an ECD centre. These people are yet to be paid. The suffering that the youth, women, PWDs and the vulnerable in the society undergo and yet they sacrificed a lot to be able to raise the money to do those projects, is very unfortunate. The sad reality is that the Exchequer has released money through the Cash Disbursement Schedule that we passed here, but counties still have pending bills. There is a mystery and paradox because we pushed for allocation, but by the end of last financial year of 2020/2021, all counties had received a full financial disbursement. However, they still have pending bills just like the national Government. This Statement is timely. We are aware of many people who have invested a lot of money in national Government projects. You remember there was a time I brought a Statement to the Committee on Education and Sen. (Dr.) Milgo who is the Chairperson of that Committee did try to intervene for payment of contractors whose pay had been delayed by secondary schools. They had provided services to the Ministry of Education. In any Ministry that you go they have pending bills. We do not understand why this is the case yet money has been disbursed by the National Treasury and the National Exchequer. I remember this issue became a national crisis, especially with county governments. Even at that time, the Committee on Finance and Budget of the Senate had to intervene. I had a privilege of sitting in that Committee in which the CS in charge of Treasury, Hon. Ukur Yattani was in attendance. He agreed that there was a circular that stated that if county governments are not complying in terms of paying their full pending bills then certain action should be taken. The Committee should question what really happened with the National Treasury circular which was issued saying county governments must pay their pending bills. As I speak, Nandi has pending bills close to more than Kshs2.5 billion yet the full allocation for money has been done for the last four financial years. I hope the Committee will be able to expedite this matter because most youth, women and PWD are really suffering having used all their savings to do county government and national Government projects. I support."
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