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    "id": 1407754,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1407754/?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": "Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I had already made part of my contribution. Before I stopped, I was painting an image as a Member of the County Public Accounts Committee (CPAC) and my Vice-Chairperson is here. I wanted to show how county governments end up with holes in their budgets. I was pointing to this scenario which is uniform among all our counties when it comes to own source revenue. Even if we make payment of these pending bills a first charge and county governments do not estimate their own source revenue in regards to what they have collected within that financial year, we may not achieve much. You find a county that has collected Kshs450 million, Kshs500 million or Kshs600 million in their budget, but in their budget statements, they estimate to collect Kshs1.2 billion. It is out of this budget that they developed their procurement plans. Ultimately, having expected to collect Kshs1.2 billion, they end up collecting Kshs700 million or Kshs800 million. This then leaves a hole of about Kshs400 million in their budgets. All counties need to address this deficit. I know Sen. Cherarkey will help me. There is another budgetary provision that they intend to beat by overestimating their own source revenue. The Constitution and the Public Finance Management Act, 2015 that we rely on require that at least 30 per cent of the budgets of all the county governments, including the national Government, must go to development. So, this money they put in their budgets, in their own source revenue, is part of what goes to development. I would want you to look at the pending bills that we are speaking about, not just for Nairobi City County, Kiambu County, or Mombasa County, you rarely find pending"
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