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    "id": 1119478,
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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Sakaja",
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        "legal_name": "Johnson Arthur Sakaja",
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    "content": "Madam Temporary Speaker, we will deal with that by correspondence. We will write to Bomet County. I apologize to the Senator of Bomet. He knows why I am saying that. We were there the other day. Madam Temporary Speaker, I know that their governor is out of the country; he is in Greece. However, we will do the correspondence because it is the water service company and many other counties that have not been remitting. In fact, for us, on top of that specific one, we will write to the National Hospital Insurance Fund (NHIF) and these other statutory bodies. We have done that to Kenya Revenue Authority (KRA), NHIF and the National Social Security Fund (NSSF) for them to tell us which counties have not been remitting and to what extent and the amount. We shall table that report here, so that every Senator knows the status of their county with respect to statutory remittances and then the Senate can pronounce itself. I am glad we have Members of the Committee on Finance and Budget and the Committee on Devolution and Intergovernmental Relations are here. Madam Temporary Speaker, in many respects, the Senate can make a decision. Out of the allocation that goes to the counties, we can decide to remove that amount from the counties and pay NHIF, NSSF, KRA directly out of the backlog. It is the same way counties have been paying for medical equipment directly. We can actually pay directly and make sure that money is paid. The Senate can make that resolution."
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