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    "id": 1382916,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1382916/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Kavindu Muthama",
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        "id": 13733,
        "legal_name": "Agnes Kavindu Muthama",
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    "content": "I also request the Senate, especially the Majority side, to support fully this recommendation. If we keep reducing this money from the counties, then our counties will not develop the way they are supposed to. Another thing is that the pending bills are too much in most of the counties. In Machakos County, we are talking of pending bills of almost Kshs3 billion. The former Governor left pending bills of Kshs2.8 billion with many stalled projects. I support that the pending bills should be dealt with and cleared immediately, so that the counties move forward and the people who did the work and have not been paid, be paid. Majority of these people died because they took bank loans. Their properties were auctioned because the counties did not pay them. I hope Sen. Ali Roba can listen so that he can pick what I am saying. If you can do something about the pending bills, we will make sure that the counties pay the pending bills immediately they receive their money. Another challenge that the counties are facing is the exchequer. We are suffering in counties because monies are not released in time. So, I ask the National Treasury to make sure that they release the monies to counties in good time so that governors will be able to work and do what they are supposed to do in good time. I congratulate this committee. They have done a good job. They should continue with it and keep it up."
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