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    "id": 1404211,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Methu",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Methu John Muhia",
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    "content": "Madam Temporary Speaker, I heard you call me and I want to make the best out of the five minutes that I have before we adjourn. As a Member who sits in CPAC, when we speak about pending bills, as I rise to support this particular Motion. We must first define what pending bills are. Pending bills is when somebody has taken his or her own money or a loan, gone to a county like Nairobi or the counties cited here, done a road, a hospital, delivered pipes and done a classroom with his own money and not paid their own money. Madam Temporary Speaker, as we speak about these pending bills, my Chairman, Sen. Kajwang,’ will tell you that when we look at these pending bills, every report of the Auditor General has a line that makes most counties not to get an unqualified audit opinion. Every county has a line that is called ‘Account Payables,’ a line that has pending bills. This is a matter that has been spoken about in this House many times. In 2014/2015, the then Auditor General, Dr. Edward Ouko, carried out an audit to show the pending bills that are there in the counties. To this moment, in all the 47 counties that we have, none would say that they have a clean bill of records. I ask myself every time I sit in the CPAC, and my Chairman is there, he can confirm. When you have a pending bill that is sitting in your bills since 2013 or 2014, then you say that there is no documentation, you must either declare that a bad debt or say how you want to treat that pending bill. Tell us whether a road was done or not. I want you to conceptualise it this way: How long is a murram road expected to last? If you did a road in 2013 and you are being told that they are going to verify 14, 10 or 11 years later, where will they get that road? The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Director, Hansard and AudioServices, Senate."
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