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    "id": 1234412,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. M. Kajwang’",
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        "id": 13162,
        "legal_name": "Moses Otieno Kajwang'",
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    "content": "of laziness in a county. A creation of a conspiracy where one governor leaves office, and the next one does not want to pay. I have chaired committees that have looked at the Auditor-General’s (AG) report on pending bills. The AG, Eddie Ouko, his last act before he left office was to audit pending bills across the country. What did we do, we took it to the Intergovernmental Budget and Economic Council (IBEC). IBEC decided to audit the work of the AG. Each county went back to set up pending bills varication committees. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, the matter has been going on for so long that in a county like Kirinyaga, which we considered last week when the Governor, who is also the Chairperson of the Council of Governors (CoG), appeared before us. They owe suppliers Kshs200 million. The age of that debt is seven years. For seven years, women, youth and persons with disability in Kirinyaga have not been paid Kshs200 million. Then, they have the cheek of saying that the Senate is the one that is not supporting devolution. The Chairperson Standing Committee of Finance and Budget should broaden this inquiry. This is because the report of the Controller of Budget (CoB) has the numbers that Sen. Onyonka is asking for and we must make sure that we interrogate that report county by county. There is no reason why the CoB brings a report to this House every quarter and we take no action and then this thing called pending bills piles up. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, finally, I support the Statement by Sen. Oketch Gicheru. We should not look at boda boda as a nuisance. Boda boda contributes close to four per cent of Kenya’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP). If you look at the Kshs1 billion per day collection. We should not only---"
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