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    "id": 399101,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Billow",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Billow Adan Kerrow",
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    "content": "“This Act shall stand repealed with effect from 30th September, 2013.” Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, what we are trying to do is to extend, therefore, the validity of this Act. Now, it is important for Members to know why we are extending the validity of this Act. It is also important for Members to know what exactly this Act itself is about. This Act, which was passed in January, 2013, was to provide for a framework for the establishment of the county treasuries and the transitional county budget processes. It was also intended to provide transitional revenue raising measures and, generally, expenditures as well as other transitional issues regarding the accounting officers and the revenue collectors. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, specifically, I think of interest to the Members is that, that Act is the one that provided for the establishment of the transitional county treasury. This is a treasury that was set up between March to September this year by the Transition Authority (TA) to be run on a transitional basis in order to allow the county governments time to recruit their own officers who will run or establish their own county treasuries. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, the same Act, again, provides that the TA shall identify the officers who will be seconded to the county governments to run those transitional treasuries. At the same time, those officers, including the transitional principal officer and so forth, who have been seconded by the TA under this Act, were required or are required to report on all public financial management matters to the TA as well as to the county executive member responsible for finance in the county government. It is also important for Members to appreciate what the transitional county treasury is and what it comprises; and who are the people who are running the county treasury on a transitional basis for that period, between March and September, 2013. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, the functions are specifically provided for in Section 8 of that Act, but the individuals who are running that treasury are quite a number who were seconded there by the TA. Specifically, there is someone who is the head of treasury; there is someone who is also responsible for preparing the budgets; there were people who were also responsible for assisting the counties in keeping their financial records; all this team was sent to the county on a transitional basis. So, it was up to the county governments to now recruit their own staff, set up their treasuries and get their county governments running."
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