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    "id": 1404212,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1404212/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Methu",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 13581,
        "legal_name": "Methu John Muhia",
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    "content": "Madam Temporary Speaker, every election cycle like in 2017, all the governors who got in had a pending bill verification committee. Every time we invite them, they tell us that they have a pending bill verification committee. This election of 2022, in every county, including Nyandarua, my own county, there was a pending bill verification committee. In every session, we say that there is a pending bill verification committee. One side of the pending bills says that these are eligible bills. The other side says that these are the ineligible bills. If then you have accepted and said that these are eligible bills, why are you not paying them? Madam Temporary Speaker, there is the second issue that we need to diagnose here. How and where are these pending bills borne from? One of the easiest routes of the birth of these pending bills is the fact that most of the counties overestimate their own source revenue. A county that collected Kshs450 million in their budget this year is saying that they expect to collect Kshs990 million, which is more than double of what they collected in the year under review. Even if you use mathematics, science or witchcraft, there are no new systems that you have done. There is nothing new you have or new taxes that you have introduced. How do you expect to double your own source? Ultimately, this one brings a hole in your budget. How do they meet this hole? Their procurement plan is informed by their budget. So, in the procurement plan of a county that has overstated their own source revenue, they procure with the strength that they intend to collect more in that year under review. What happens when it is the end of the year? They collected less than what they had intended to collect. So, they have procured services, but nothing---"
}