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    "id": 1127091,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kisumu East, Independent",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Shakeel Shabbir",
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        "legal_name": "Ahmed Shakeel Shabbir Ahmed",
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    "content": " Thank you very much, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I beg your pardon. I am out of order. Before I speak, let me put on my mask. I am sorry about that oversight. My colleague has detailed the five Funds that the Special Funds Accounts Committee (SFAC) looked at. I am a Member of the Committee. It has taken a great amount of time to look at the accounts of some of these Funds, which had never been sorted out for some time. There is one Fund that I want to bring to the attention of the House. I was a mayor of a city. Many of us here have been councillors or have somehow been connected with the previous local authorities before they were taken over by the county governments. There is something called the Local Authorities Provident Fund (LAPF). It has a lot of money though much of it is due for payment to its members. There is a lot of debt due to the cities of Mombasa, Nairobi, Kisumu and other former local authorities, but the bigger ones are Nairobi, Mombasa and Kisumu. So, the LAPF monies are debts. There has been a proposal that the County Pension Fund takes over the assets and liabilities of LAPF. However, the counties do not wish to be involved with LAPF. Neither do they have a desire to acknowledge the liabilities of the local authorities yet they keenly wished to take over assets of those local authorities. In Kisumu, where I was the mayor, the issue had become one of debt swaps. The debt swap in Kisumu was depending upon the Makasembo Estate that was taken over by the LAPF, which had a lot of contributions. The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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