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    "id": 1507120,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1507120/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Olekina",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 407,
        "legal_name": "Ledama Olekina",
        "slug": "ledama-olekina"
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    "content": "Earlier today, when a staffer in my office went to one of the financial institutions that has been nominated to receive Social Health Insurance Fund (SHIF) payments, they were told that they could only pay using cash and not by cheque. It begs the question; why do we still use cheques as one of the modes of paying? The CBK must get correct answers from Diamond Trust Bank (DTB), Kenya Commercial Bank (KCB) and other banks that are sending away institutions that want to make payments by cheques. Unless you have an existing account with that bank, they do not accept a cheque from any other financial institution. It is also important to streamline how Government services should be paid for. If we are paying everything on e-Citizen, then we need to figure out how to account for that. In Parliament, we are told that all payments should be made using cheques. However, when you go to other Government institutions, they tell you to pay cash. When an officer is given money in form of imprest, tomorrow, auditors will come and say that that officer collected so much money in form of imprest, forgetting the context in which that money was collected. It is imperative for these monetary policies to cut across."
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