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    "id": 1382931,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Orwoba",
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    "content": "are the same people oversighting them. We should also go down, interrogate and find out why Wajir County, for instance, is only collecting Kshs46 million in OSR. Year-in, year-out, we are pumping in money for a lot of things yet we do not know whether it is leading to development in terms of economic activities. I also want to congratulate the Kenya Kwanza Government. We have themed this budgeting to sustain the bottom-up economic agenda. This is an intentional Government from the time we made promises in the campaign period down to our BPS. That is something to congratulate this Government for. Finally, on the issue of pending bills, we need to fiercely legislate on this issue. There are counties-and my deskmate from Embu County can attest to this, that they do not have all the resources coming in. If they have to deal with pending bills, then they are not going to do any kind of development. In Kisii County where I come from, audited reports of the pending bills are insane. At one point whether we like it or not, we must legislate on the issue of pending bills. We have to get a law that controls it such that the Governor in office cannot be putting out tenders knowing that there is going to be a huge amount of pending bills. I congratulate the committee for a job well done. As Senators, we should also go out there and sensitize Kenyans on this BPS so that they understand why we pay taxes. I thank you."
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