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    "id": 1399631,
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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Olekina",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 407,
        "legal_name": "Ledama Olekina",
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    "content": "I have seen contractors from Narok County, who have rushed to the Controller of Budget (CoB). They have camped to there and told the CoB that when Narok County requests money, do not give out because the law under the county government's regulations demands that pending Bill must be the first charge of a county. Seeing my time, I will try to summarize so that at least my colleagues can contribute on it because this is a matter that affects all of us. If you look at the Public Finance Management Regulations, debt services payment shall be a first charge on the account of revenue fund and the accounting officer shall ensure this is done to the extent possible that the county government does not default on debt obligations. Governors have now found a very mysterious way of them ensuring that they pay their cronies, make their money or they only benefit from outside. When they request money from the CoB, they divert the money, so it is not in the budget. Supplementary budget is the way. During the transitioning periods from the former governors to the current, because of the time that we vote, when the new governors come in place, they would say, “that is not my budget but the former governor's.” What do they do? They now introduce supplementary budgets. In the case of Narok, when the current governor was taking over from the former, the former had given around Kshs600 million in one-line item that dealt with the issues to do with the transport sector. He brought in a supplementary budget and increased it by Kshs1.6 billion, moving it from Ksh600 million to Kshs2.1 billion without public participation. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, this Motion is now calling on Kenyans to be aware and compel county governments to do public participation whenever they pass a supplementary budget. Since you have already gone through it and carried public participation on your County Integrated Development Plan (CIDP) for five years and public participation on your annual development for one year, why then should you be bringing supplementary one, two, three and four without going back to the public to tell them that you now want to change priorities, instead of what you had budgeted for? I have taken a few minutes to mention each county and what is owed. This are your constituents or Kenyans who are owed; who are now becoming insane. They have gone gaga because they cannot do their business just because somebody in the county government has decided not to pay them their bills. Mr. Temporary Speaker, I would like to beseech all the 47 delegates to pass this Motion. From there, now we implement it so that we can save this country. I beg to move and I request the Senate Majority Leader to second."
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