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    "id": 1550612,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1550612/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kilifi North, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Owen Baya",
    "speaker": null,
    "content": "This Division of Revenue Bill must take into account and kill this new concept of pending bills. Governors are out there accumulating pending bills because they want to play politics. Ministries accumulate pending bills because they do not want to pay before being offered a bribe. These are among certain issues that frustrate business people. Young business people are frustrated. Big businesses are collapsing because those currently in office deliberately refuse to pay them if they were doing business with the previous regime and therefore say, “ wacha akae kando” . This kind of thinking is so mundane and immature; thus, perpetuity in Government is important. If I come in as governor and somebody supplied to the county, I carry over and pay them, then we move on. On the contrary, we have people begging governors and principal secretaries for payment over goods or services they supplied or constructed, among other things, yet we approved the Division of Revenue Bill in this House. We approve budgets for these people to be paid and ensure that this country runs efficiently. However, one individual accumulates pending bills out of bad behaviour on flimsy political grounds. Governors are not paying officers. They are not accountants. We have people who have been given the responsibility to make payments, but these days, governors keep lists of who they will pay. You have to see the governor for you to be paid. This is bad manners, which is leading to the accumulation of pending bills. These pending bills will ground this country one day. As Members of this House and as leaders, we need to be careful to ensure that pending bills are removed from budgets. If you accumulate pending bills, you must know how to pay, and it should be one of the grounds for impeachment of these leaders to ensure that discipline is maintained. Why allocate money to a governor accumulating up to Ksh4 billion pending bills? Why did we sit here long hours to…"
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