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    "id": 1546006,
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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": "I have gone through the Report and I am ashamed of my own county when it comes to nugatory expenditures. Nugatory expenditures are those expenses which could have been avoided. They are the expenses that you do not have to pay penalties for if you pay your bills on time. You actually do not have to pay interest, and you do not have to pay legal fees. Unfortunately, we paid a whopping Kshs1.7 billion in terms of nugatory expenditures. Kajiado County also shocked me. They have about Kshs11.9 billion which the Governor could be collecting from rent arrears and paid rates instead of fighting other people. He could have been going to collect that money. Secondly, there is the issue of pending bills. I am happy that my county has reduced it. It has gone down to Kshs763 million, but it is still a lot of money. In Kajiado County, it is over Kshs2.35 billion. When you look at the development budget, you will realise that Kshs1.4 billion has not been paid to developers. Essentially, nothing is happening. The distinguished Senator for Homa Bay County, the Chairperson of the County Public Accounts Committee, has asked us to allow them to go after these rogue governors. He has asked us to allow them to work with the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) to go and scrutinize these expenditures. If we do that, as a House, we will save this country from these nugatory expenditures. We will save the businesses that are not paid when they are supposed to be paid. We will be looking at issues of fiduciary responsibilities. We need to agree on what should happen if you fault or if you do not respect the PFM Act and you are called but fail to do so. I know that the Governor of Kajiado County was called to appear before the Committee and he failed to do so. Instead of focusing and making sure that you are using the money rightly, you are busy politicking. Right now, we want the Committee to go after these governors and ensure that they are jailed if need be."
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