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    "id": 1462567,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1462567/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Sifuna",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 13599,
        "legal_name": "Sifuna Edwin Watenya",
        "slug": "sifuna-edwin-watenya"
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    "content": "We have passed Motions here, as Sen. Osotsi told you, that we needed every pending bill below Kshs1 billion to be paid by the end of the last financial year. We needed to see county governments filing payment plans with the Controller of Budget; those plans should also be filed with us. As far as I am concerned, I have not seen any county that has actually filed or complied with that Motion. So, it becomes very difficult for us to explain to the people why this is happening. I am happy that now I have someone that I can directly access at the National Treasury to explain to me if there are going to be any delays in the disbursement of money to counties. As opposed to the previous occupant of that office, this is somebody who I know where he lives both here in Nairobi and I have been to his home. I can walk there and ask questions. We want to see change in that office. We just do not want people to be given positions that they are not ready to execute the mandate of those offices. We want to see the counties complying with the Motions that have been passed by this House. We need the projects on the ground to be financed and timely disbursement of money from the National Treasury, so that we can explain to the public where these problems are because we cannot be a House of lamentations. Honestly, we had proposed very radical proposals here. Let us stop giving counties money if they are not going to pay contractors. We can pay those contractors from source- --"
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