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    "id": 1393770,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Faki",
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        "id": 13211,
        "legal_name": "Mohamed Faki Mwinyihaji",
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    "content": "Thank you, Madam Temporary Speaker. I also want to support the Statement by Sen. Olekina on the budget making and utilisation in several counties, including my own county of Mombasa. It is true that the performance of Mombasa County in terms of Budget implementation has not been up to standard in the current administration. For instance, in the Financial Year 2022/2023, we failed to meet our target on Own Source Revenue (OSR) by about Kshs1.2 billion. This will have a bearing on the projects that the Government had put in place to implement in the Financial Year 2022/2023. Two, there are also high levels of pending bills. At the moment, the pending bills stand at Kshs3.92 billion as at 31st December, 2023. This is against the fact that there was a sum of Kshs2.91 billion available in the County Revenue Fund (CRF), which was supposed to be used to offset some of those pending bills. These pending bills are worsening, and they will have a bearing on the future financial performance of the County of Mombasa. Three is on the youth and empowerment programmes that are supposed to be undertaken in the county. Mombasa being the port city, at the moment, we have the largest number of youth unemployment. If you look at the Report by the Controller of Budget (CoB), it places the youth unemployment at 44 per cent. Approximately four out of every 10 youths are jobless at the moment. However, our county government has not undertaken any projects that will be geared towards reduction of this youth unemployment. This will have a bearing on budget absorption and development in Mombasa County. Finally, there was the issue of diversion of funds in the county treasury and weak budgeting practice. This one also will have a bearing---. At the moment, the county government of Mombasa does not have a Financial Act for the year 2024/2025. Madam Temporary Speaker, I fully support the Statement by hon. Sen. Olekina. I urge the Committee on Finance and Budget, which I am a Member, to quickly deal with these issues so that we can arrest any future bottlenecks that will arise as a result of failure by these counties that are mentioned in this Statement. Thank you."
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