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    "id": 1376272,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1376272/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Mbugua",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Mary Njoki G Mbugua",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir, for this opportunity to add my voice to this Report. Allow me to appreciate the Members of this Committee for a job well done in producing this Report. There are many recommendations in this Report and the important one to me is the recommendation that the Ministry of Labour and Social Protection will expand the scope of the Social Protection Fund (SPF), to include all persons with severe disability and that in consultation with the National Council, the correct data for Persons with Disability (PwDs) in this country shall be collected. Mr. Speaker, Sir, I also like the recommendation on pending bills because county governments in this country have put many Kenyans in poverty. We pass the budget here and recommend that pending bills be paid and nothing happens. I commend the Committee for this recommendation. The recommendation of the operationalisation of the Public Benefit Organization Act of 2013 is welcome to the civil society of this country because we appreciate that the Government cannot do everything. This will enable the civil society to mobilize funds to help the vulnerable in this country, especially the PwDs. Mr. Speaker, Sir, I am also in support of the recommendation by this Committee that county governments should be held to account and that they should ensure that not more than 35 per cent of the ordinary revenue is used to remunerate staff. What is happening in our country is that county governments have become employment bureaus and they are only employing people and very little is happening in terms of development. With these few remarks, Mr. Speaker, Sir, I support the adoption of this Report."
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