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    "id": 1465116,
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    "speaker_name": "Mr. Elisha Ongoya",
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    "content": "(1) This is something we find very paradoxical. As at 25th June, 2024, the County Assembly of Meru had raised this question with the County Executive on whether there is a manual payroll. The County Executive had answered satisfactorily that there was no longer use of a manual payroll in the County Government of Meru. (2) The same audit report that the County Assembly will give you showing that there may have been use of manual payroll previously, will show use of manual payroll in the county itself as well in the same financial year. We are not here to equal terms. We are making a simple case that the procedure of processing the Integrated Payroll Personnel Database (IPPD) numbers takes time. Therefore, the employees who are in the meantime accommodated on the manual payrolls are there for the limited purpose when we are waiting for the Directorate of Personnel Management (DPM) in the Ministry of Public Service and Human Capital Development to generate IPPD numbers. Mr. Speaker, Sir, these are nursery school teachers whom we cannot keep for eight months as they wait for their IPPD numbers before they begin earning. There is no allegation of loss of any coin in these circumstances. I have addressed the issue of the alleged bloated workforce in the Governor's office, but they have said there are 111 personal staff in the Governor's office. As a matter of fact, we do not have 111 personal staff in the Governor's office. It is simply not true. On the allegation that one Kiambi Chrispus Manyara was paid- (1) The Governor is not the head of the County Public Service involved in interdiction or suspension of staff. (2) The Governor does not process or pay any staff of the county government. The allegation therefore that this Governor has paid Kiambi Chrispus Manyara is false. Mr. Speaker, Sir, and the distinguished Senators, I have spent my two minutes to address certain overall--- Mr. Speaker, Sir, may I just have one minute to summarize up something? I did not know my time was up. I thought it was two minutes. We have said before and we reiterate that the County Assembly of Meru brings here the Governor because it lacks respect for this oversight institution. If the team upstairs has access to video number VKM18---"
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