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    "id": 1232463,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Sifuna",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 13599,
        "legal_name": "Sifuna Edwin Watenya",
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    "content": "Of course, it will be remise, if I do not mention the question of pending bills. As I have said, Nairobi City County is in a crisis. We have pending bills of almost Kshs100 billion. A concept of payment in lieu of rates was introduced in the Budget Policy Statement. I expect the central Government to take it up. The central Government owes Nairobi City County a lot of money, the equivalent to that Kshs100 billion. If there can be an arrangement where they pay off these bills for us in lieu of the rates they are supposed to pay us, then it will help my County to move forward. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, finally, allow me to share an experience. As a lawyer, there is something called practice direction. When these counties appear before Committees, we want them to be given practice direction on how to present documents, bundle, number and label them. In fact, we have seen extremes. One of the best was Homa Bay County while the worst was Murang’a County. One of those governors is a lawyer. I will let you guess which one is the lawyer because you know him. He was your classmate. Therefore, it becomes very difficult for you to follow conversations as a committee. It is because there are bulky documents which are not properly labelled or numbered. It encumbers---"
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