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    "id": 1169278,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1169278/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. (Eng.) Hargura",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Godana Hargura",
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    "content": "Madam Temporary Speaker, I beg to reply to this Motion. I thank the Senators who contributed to this Motion starting with the Seconder, Sen. Cherargei and the other two Senators, Sen. (Dr.) Musuruve and Sen. Faki. I would like to highlight a few issues, which have also been in our report, some of which the Members have brought out, and those that I hope will be taken into account when this report has been adopted and submitted to the relevant government authorities. The first one is the issue of pending bills, which came out in this report. It is difficult to understand how pending bills are generated in county governments, because they receive all the monies they have budgeted for. There is no way they will generate the Pending Bill unless they procure outside their budgets. There is also a requirement that Pending Bills should form the first charge and the National Treasury has always insisted on that. How they generate pending bills after receiving their money is an issue. Counties prepare itemised budgets. I believe the Controller of Budget, when looking at the requisition and approving their funds, they look at that itemised budget. I do not understand how they do not follow the itemized budget when making payments. When we had the impeachment of the Governor for Wajir, an issue came out clearly where one of the charges was that financial misappropriation was very clear that"
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