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    "id": 1491417,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1491417/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Olekina",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 407,
        "legal_name": "Ledama Olekina",
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    "content": "I do not know whether it will be overstretching to further add 119(b), to require that when payments are being made out, that the CoB shall have some form of viewer rights to the people who are being paid that money, to ensure that when the county executive or the county clerk are requesting to pay vendors, they shall include the vendor account numbers to the requisition and in that requisition, when the money has been sent out, we should require the banks to send a confirmation that the money which was authorized by the CoB has been sent to the supplier. That will end this business of pending bills. It will also end this business of diversion of funds because diversion of funds, is a cancer and if we do not deal with it right now and cut it out completely, we will continue having huge pending bills. People will continue killing themselves because counties have not paid them. When we have a crisis in a stagnating economy like this one right now, most businesses out there will continue suffering. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I fully support this and I will be sitting down with you, so that at the Committee of the Whole, we include those two new amendments and we do away with Section 119 that you have introduced. Let us allow county assemblies to fully manage their funds. This will even help the MCAs to go out there and carry out their oversight function, because they will no longer complain that they have not been given their mileage or their sitting allowances because the executive has not yet released money to the county assembly clerk. I thank you."
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