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    "id": 1407799,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1407799/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Kisang’",
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    "content": "Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I rise to support this Motion by the Senator for Narok. The issue of pending bills has been there for a long time since the inception of devolution. If you do the maths, the amount we have right now as pending bills is Kshs156 billion. Majority of these are recurrent expenditure. You wonder why there are pending bills on recurrent costs. Most of these could be salaries or statutory deductions such as the PAYE, pensions and National Health Insurance Fund (NHIF). One of the key reasons why some of these arise is because of mismanagement. It means that governors are not managing the counties properly. The County Public Investments and Special Funds Committee (CPIC) has had several meetings. I heard my colleague Sen. Cherarkey talk about CPAC too. When you go through the reports of the Auditor-General, you will realise that county governments over-budget their own source revenue, instead of being realistic and budgeting amounts they are able to collect. We urge Members of County Assembly (MCAs) to be finding out how much their county government collected as own source revenue in the previous years before they approve their budget. They should not accept anything more than 10 per cent in positive variation. The reason they over-budget, leading to this mess, is because our MCAs are not keen to ensure that county executives are put to check. They should be told to be realistic when budgeting. You cannot tell us that you collected Kshs300 million last year and this"
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