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    "id": 1419766,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Sifuna",
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        "legal_name": "Sifuna Edwin Watenya",
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    "content": "absolutely devastated. People have not been paid for years. Their businesses have been closed, people have been auctioned, and yet we continue to talk about pending bills. That is why I supported the Motion that was brought to this Floor by the Senator for Narok County, that we need to ring-fence money, and once money is sent to the counties, the county governments must make sure that they pay all those pending bills. Mr. Speaker, Sir, finally, I want to speak on the question of overlap of functions. Again, I refer you to this report of our own Parliamentary Budget Office. If you go to page 58 of that report, the budget office has highlighted areas where there are overlaps. We will continue to tell the national Government to, please, get out of the business of county governments. I was very happy when for the first time, the Cabinet Secretary for Gender, Culture, Arts and Heritage came here and told us that, “this is not the business of national Government. We have no business staying in it.” Mr. Speaker, Sir, one of the areas that have been identified is library services. If you read the report of the committee, the National Treasury is deducting library services money from county government’s shareable revenue. The Cabinet Secretary herself confirmed here that the national library at Milimani in Nairobi is still in the hands of the national Government. They insist on sticking with the functions, yet they deduct money that is meant for library services from the shareable revenue of county governments and national Government. Mr. Speaker, Sir, this overlap has also been seen in places such as the energy sector where power transmission---"
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