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    "id": 1460762,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1460762/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Funyula, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. (Dr) Ojiambo Oundo",
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    "content": "As I conclude, it is important as a country that we look at how we handle our matters because we appropriate funds each year. As I stand here today, and this is based on unverified information, counties have not received close to Ksh30 billion. This is what was appropriated in the Financial Year 2023/2024. Again, we are misleading the nation that we have given them a certain percentage and yet, the truth of the matter is that all the money has not been disbursed. Why use unrealistic estimates, revenue projections, or simply decide to frustrate devolution by failing to release disbursed funds on time? For what benefit will it be, if counties are given development funds on 30 June? They cannot absorb it and the law is very clear on roll-back. We end up creating artificial pending bills. When the funds come on the last day, the guys at the National Treasury and counties compete to loot the money. They allocate those who have done nothing. At the end of the day, when the auditors come, what do they see?They find that funds have already been spent with no project that adds value to the people of Kenya undertaken! I pray that Hon. Mbadi is nominated to the position of a Cabinet Secretary of the National Treasury and Economic Planning. I hope he will have the courage, get the latitude, be responsible, and have the freedom to instill some sanity at the National Treasury. Hon. Temporary Speaker, with those few remarks, I support."
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