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    "id": 148469,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/148469/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Mudavadi",
    "speaker_title": "The Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Local Government",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 84,
        "legal_name": "Wycliffe Musalia Mudavadi",
        "slug": "musalia-mudavadi"
    },
    "content": " Mr. Speaker, Sir, I beg to reply. (a) The Minister for finance, in consultation with the Minister for Local Government, in a special issue of the Kenya Gazette supplement No.20 and Legal Notice No.22 of 22nd April, 2004, notified all the local authorities that starting the 2009/2010 Financial Year, no amount of LATF funds shall be disbursed from the LATF Fund unless the authority has paid all outstanding debts. There is also Circular No.MLG No.4 of 2009, dated 23rd February, 2009, from the Ministry of Local Government which further reminded the Local Authorities of the said legal provisions. (b) I would like, for the notice of the House, to note that the initial provisions for eliminating the outstanding debts within a period of five years was first issued through a Legal Notice No.142 of September, 1999, under the LATF regulations. It was later extended by the Minister for Finance for another five years in the Financial Year 2004/2005. This was due to a request from the LATF Advisory Board. The notice to the local authorities to settle the debts has, therefore, been in place for the last 10 years. This cannot be a very short period."
}