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    "id": 1464099,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1464099/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Nyando, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Jared Okello",
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    "content": "been perpetuated in the past. Our counties grapple with pending bills. I do not know where we lost the mark. The NG-CDF is one of the devolved funds that attract no pending bills at all. No one is engaged, until money is available. You cannot have a supplier or contractor on site under the NG- CDF until money is brought into the constituency. How did we lose this? Governors and their county executive committees sit down and allocate contracts based on monies they do not have. At the end of the day, they lump up bills. What stops an outgoing governor from engaging contractors and suppliers, getting his kickbacks, and then retiring? Nothing can stop it. If you visit all our counties, you will be confronted by pending bills running into billions, yet nothing has been done on the ground. How do we correct these ills moving forward? Some Governors have become lazy. There are Exchequer releases. Today we are also talking about additional funding to counties. We are looking at sources from court fines. We are looking at counties getting royalties from minerals available within them. What stops a governor from just sitting pretty and waiting for these monies? Why can they not become innovative enough to add additional revenue streams into their systems? Governors also need to wake up to the reality and expand their revenue streams to fund their projects without necessarily waiting for Exchequer releases. The Integrated Financial Management System (IFMIS) and all the other obstacles on the way confront the Exchequer. It has been said enough times that the little money that goes into constituencies in terms of project implementation is what can be seen on the ground. Counties attract billions from both their revenue and the Exchequer. However, I can tell you there is nothing substantial they do that one can write home about. Our hospitals are still confronted by a lack of medicines. Their doctors and nurses have to go on strike to be paid. Some of these counties have not paid salaries dating back six months yet billions are channelled there. The genesis upon which county governments were enacted is being lost on the way. You are piling more problems on the people, unlike their situations before. Even as a House, we are intending to add more money to counties. Everybody needs to be moral enough and come up with what we call financial probity where accountability becomes the centre stage of transactions. Otherwise, the main and very noble idea is being lost. That is the tragedy we have as a nation."
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