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    "id": 1112663,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Wetangula",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Moses Masika Wetangula",
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    "content": "from suffering. Through that effort, one morning at KICC, we had 14 governors who appeared before the Committee. I was happy to learn at that time that Baringo County had no single pending bill. This can be done. Other counties had pending bills in billions. The Finance CS put his foot down and said he was not going to disburse money to any county that did not have a grand master plan on how to liquidate pending bills. Governors from Narok, Machakos and all over came and gave us the road map. We learnt that some governors at that time, paid the pending bills. It is actually a question of will. Madam Temporary Speaker, you always serve in the same Committee. The law is very clear. The Public Finance Management Act (PFM Act) says you cannot procure for goods or services without an attendant budget. If that law was followed, there would be no pending bills in this country. This is because you have a budget and you must work within it. If a project you have run across two or three financial years, you should know how much you put in each financial year and pay as and when certificates are raised, if it is services like construction. There is absolutely no reason for this country to suffer from pending bills. I have heard you passionately speak about this. When you go to the counties, the youth and the women whom we say we must support go to shylocks, borrow money, discharge duties in terms of Local Purchase Orders (LPOs) given to them and eventually they are auctioned. Others, end up getting locked up. If you know the history of shylocks from The Merchant of Venice written by William Shakespeare, shylocks are ruthless people. They will want a pound of flesh next to your heart for not paying their money. Out there, people are suffering. In other counties like Bungoma where I come from, the governor himself is a proxy contractor in every respect. All his cronies whom he gives work to supply goods or construct are paid promptly on time."
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