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    "id": 480749,
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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": "Mr. Chairman, Sir, the individual counties, as you all know, prepare their own budgets, from which they prepare their own appropriation bills and so forth. The county governments are fairly independent in the way they prepare their budgets. But because of the need to ensure that the budgets done at the county governments and national Government use the same system, for the same reasons that we use the Integrated Financial Management Information System (IFMIS) also in the counties, it is important that the county governments also use programme-based budgeting. However, because of the delay, it would be difficult to get the counties to comply at this late time, for the simple reason that counties are trying to do the budgets now because the County Allocation of Revenue Bill is being considered now. So, it will be a bit late. We have asked that the period for the county governments be pushed to next year. We have discussed it with the Treasury and they do not seem to have a problem with that. Otherwise, it would be difficult to really get the county governments to comply with that provision if we leave it the way it is."
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