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    "id": 476625,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Aden",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Aden Bare Duale",
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    "content": "Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, this kind of mediation should in future happen before we pass the national Appropriation Bill. We are now in a situation which hon. Angwenyi describes as a “conditional illegality”. I do not know whether I want to use that word. We are approving this money because it is in the interest of Kenyans. We want funds to become available to our Level 5 hospitals. Therefore, we must make this money available. However, the timing of this process has it is, is putting the Cabinet Secretary of the National Treasury into a very difficult position in terms of making the money available. It is forcing the county executive members in all the county assemblies to prepare other supplementary budgets to ensure that the money is appropriated as required by law. I want to say there is need to enforce the utilization of funds at the county levels. It is disheartening to see that, indeed, even as the taxpayers in Kenya struggles to make sure that there is money available, taxes are paid and collected; there are a lot of leakages in our systems. It has recently been reported by the Auditor-General - and it was very surprising - that taxes which had been collected by the tax man did not end up in the Central Bank coffers. Where is that money? There are a number of critical questions, both at national and county levels that we need to answer. I believe there is no good utilization of the little available resources that we have in the country. As I end, CORD or the coalition that I honorably represent on this side, wants to make sure that part of the referendum issues we are pushing for is, indeed, to have more money available to our counties. That is the very major issue that we want addressed. All those other small things that we are hearing from the other side are diversionary issues, which I must acknowledge---"
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