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    "id": 1399625,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Olekina",
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    "content": "(1) recommends that all County Governments pay verified pending bills amounting to less than Kshs1 billion by the end of this financial year and those above Kshs1 billion by the end of the financial year 2024/2025; and, (2) resolves that- (i) pursuant to the provisions of Regulation 41(2) & (3) of the Public Finance Management (County Governments) Regulations, 2015, County Governments prioritize payment of pending bills as a first charge on the County Revenue Fund failure to which the subsequent quotas budget releases will not be done; (ii) county Governments shall only pay pending Bills contained in their respective procurement plans pursuant to Regulation 50 (2) and (3) of the Public Finance Management (County Governments) Regulations; (iii) supplementary budgets for county governments are prepared in the third quarter to curb instances of arbitrary re-allocations out of the approved budget estimates; and, (iv) county governments shall conduct public participation while formulating supplementary budgets, failure to which the Controller of Budget (CoB) shall not approve the supplementary budgets. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, today, one lawyer in Kenya instructed auctioneers to go and attach Nairobi City County vehicles. This is after a ruling by Justice Sifuna, which essentially removed the privilege that governments enjoyed in the Civil Procedures Rule 16 and 131. This essentially meant that if you are owed money by a county government, the only way that you can get your money is simply when you bribe. In most cases, if you attempted to follow the due process of the law, the only time you can get some redress is if you go to court three times. The first time you go, you will get a decree; orders of mandamus . After that, you will now pursue that officer and enforce to have him arrested for contempt of court for you to get your money. Even after, you do not get the money. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, earlier on, before coming to move this, I circulated a list of how much each county owes suppliers. Machakos County, which is number four in the list, owes about Kshs3 billion. In fact, the actual figure is Kshs3,031,332,471. Mandera County owes another Kshs3 billion. Busia County, owes about Kshs2.2 billion. Embu County owes kshs1.9 billion. Laikipia County owes Kshs1.7 billion. Wajir County owes Kshs1.6 billion. In fact, the Senator for Wajir said they owe more. However, these are the verified figures as at 30th December. Kisumu County owes Kshs1.6 billion; Tana River County owes Kshs1.6 billion; Nakuru County owes Kshs1.4 billion; Kakamega County owes 1.4 billion; my beloved County of Narok owes suppliers and contractors Kshs1.4 billion, yet it is the county that generates more own source revenue. I bet that money is now used to create kingpins and all manner of things, instead of paying bills. Turkana County, one of the counties we allocate most of the money owes suppliers, contractors and people who are now battling with mental illness and some have died. They owe them about Kshs1.4 billion. Kajiado County, my neighbouring county,"
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