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    "id": 1162962,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Cherargei",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 13217,
        "legal_name": "Cherarkey K Samson",
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    "content": "Thank you, Madam Temporary Speaker. I support Sen. Omanga for this Statement. It is illegal not to remit the statutory deductions. Many counties are facing most of these challenges. I usually see the KRA being very brutal when their money is not remitted. When you have statutory money to the tune of Kshs500million and when you go to the National Treasury under the County Revenue Fund (CRF) account of the Nairobi City County Government, it has been already released. Where is the money? It simply shows that this money has been already misappropriated. It is as simple as that. I hope when the Governor, hon. Kananu, and the executive team of Nairobi City County appear before the Senate Committee on Budget and Finance, they must tell us the money has been released by the exchequer; it has been statutorily deducted under the law and where it has gone. This is corruption and it must be called by its name. We cannot even call it, the deduction was not remitted. How come the money has been released by the exchequer to the county government? It is supposed to ensure that statutory deductions are paid. We have witnessed this issue in many counties. In Nandi County, for example, there was a time they were not remitting NHIF deductions. There have been cases where statutory deductions to KRA are not remitted. I remember the former governor of this county was almost arrested by the KRA for failure by the county government to remit this money. We have a big problem. That is why there are many pending bills in most counties governments. I hope this matter can be treated with urgency because these statutory deductions are rights of employees of Nairobi City County. We hope and pray that when the county executive will appear, they will not tell us whether it is the NMS or the Nairobi City County Government that was supposed to do it. You know, they are two entities; the NMS and the County Government. It must be said in no uncertain terms that they must appear to tell us where the Kshs560million is and who took it. In fact, I do not know why this Statement is coming to the--- Since the Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission (EACC), they should have even detected and investigated some of these things and get people arrested. Why is the EACC sleeping on their job? It is their job to detect, prevent and ensure that they fight corruption. It now looks that they are sleeping on the job and now the Senate"
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