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    "id": 1570395,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Wamatinga",
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    "content": "When they hold onto their money in form of pending bills for two or three years, they end up crippling these business people. We know that voiding has been a common practice among many county governments. Where they lay the requisite and they list the requisition from the National Treasury, but once the money hits the account, they do not pay the intended beneficiary, but end up paying the beneficiaries they want. The reason being all the successors of governors who vacate office and leave huge pending bills, do not honor those pending bills. As Senators, as we fight for county governments to get more allocation, we must also be quite firm that as is in the law, the first charge should and must be the pending bills. I am a proud resident and Senator of Nyeri County that we have minimal pending bills. It is very disheartening when you read about counties like Nairobi that owes suppliers billions of shillings. It is quite unfortunate that most of the counties that keep on changing governors, like Kiambu, have equally very huge pending bills. As we fight to get more resources directly to the counties, it is my prayer that we strengthen not only the oversight, but also the execution of the first charge pending bills. We know that we are living at a time when climate change has become a global challenge. I wish that we had a variable in the formula that would ensure that counties that invest heavily on mitigation of climate change get incentives. We should start looking at things from a global approach and should be future-centric. We, as leaders, must become responsible and know that we have a moral obligation to leave a continent, country and counties that are safe for the future generations. This cannot happen unless we invest and get involved. We must be intentional and put variables that will create incentives. With that, a number of our citizens will participate in matters that will go a long way towards mitigation of climate change."
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