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    "id": 1134314,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1134314/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Murkomen",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 440,
        "legal_name": "Onesimus Kipchumba Murkomen",
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    "content": "Lastly on this Budget Policy Statement is the question of conditional grants and the legal framework. I am glad the Committee captured this very important fact. Despite the fact that there is a court ruling of 2016 that gave clear ways of implementation of Article 190 of the Constitution, county governments have never benefited from grants from the national level. As Sen. Kajwang’ captured, we would like to see these conditional grants going to our counties and our county governments having responsibility, having signed the agreements with the national Government on the question of resources. Lastly, it is shocking if you go to page 11 of the moving notes of the Chair. You will find the outstanding guaranteed debt of State enterprises which stands at Kshs157 billion. Of the Kshs157 billion only one company, Kenya Airways has been guaranteed Kshs80 billion by the national Government. It is Exposing the people of Kenya to this level of debt for a company that cannot explain exactly what they are doing with this money. It is still down, it has Kshs80 billion which it has borrowed. We do not know who owns the planes. Several reports have been done by National Assembly and this House about Kenya Airways. Kenya Airways remains one of the national assets that we must re-audit to understand who the beneficiaries of this Kshs80 billion borrowed are. Who are these individuals? I like what Sen. M. Kajwang’ said that we do not want projects that terminate in someone’s hand. I did not ask you who that person is. Similarly, I want to say that we do not also want debts of Kshs80 billion. If you investigate, you will find that the beneficiary is just one individual and his personal companies and the resources they are going to get. This country must be serious. After the next elections, I pray that some of us who will come back here will become more serious in auditing these companies especially when those people will no longer be in positions of power to protect themselves and to loot public resources. With this hypocrisy that is going on, they have always talked about corruption. We want to tell them that after August next year, let us meet in this Chamber and investigate these programmes when they are not holding the sword of power and we will find out how much of these resources have been looted for individual gain. I really support this Report. I congratulate the Committee. This is the main reason why we came here. I am glad that the Chair did not limit the time so that all of us can give our points. I believe we should support the Kshs495 billion but I pray that we increase another Ksh200 billion to get it to Ksh630 billion in line with what the Pharisees in the Building Bridges Initiative (BBI) have proposed. I thank you."
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