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    "id": 1407793,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1407793/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Osotsi",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 13588,
        "legal_name": "Osotsi Godfrey Otieno",
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    "content": "rumours outside there. The Cabinet Secretary for the National Treasury and Economic Planning must appear in this House to tell us why he has delayed to send money to the counties. That is the only way we will get these people to send money to the counties in time. One of the pending bills in counties is pension and statutory deduction like NSSF. We have done a report that counties owe pensioners in excess of Kshs80 billion and it has been adopted in this House, yet someone is playing monkey games with it. We said that we want the Cabinet Secretary for the National Treasury and Economic Planning to gazette the Committee that is going to implement that report in 30 days. The Cabinet Secretary has not done that because the Attorney-General, who was the Speaker of this House, is sitting on that report. The resolutions of this House must be respected so that we move our counties forward. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I have quite a lot to say on this matter of pending bills. My county appeared before the Senate Committee on Finance and Budget and made promises. I would like to see them implementing those promises and paying all the historical and any other pending bills they have within the next two years as proposed in this Motion. With those remarks, I fully support this Motion and request Members to also support it. There are outstanding issues that the Senate needs to deal with, such as matters of own source revenue, diversion of funds, performance of the---"
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