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    "id": 484817,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/484817/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Waiganjo",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "John Muriithi Waiganjo",
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    "content": "Thank you, hon. Deputy Speaker, for giving me this opportunity to support the County Allocation of Revenue Bill. This is an important Bill because it is the one that will enable the national Government to transfer allocations to the county governments’ revenue fund. I also note with sadness that the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) of the Senate recently acted ultra vires their powers by freezing the accounts of various counties just because they did not appear before that Committee. These are the instances where we must tell our brothers and sisters in the Senate to try as much as possible and act within the law. Freezing the accounts of the county governments does not help in any way. If the Governors failed to appear before them, then that is not reason enough to deny the entire populations of those counties their funding. I urge the Cabinet Secretary for Treasury and the Controller of Budget to ignore the PAC of the Senate in this instance. It also goes to show that at a time when the governors are asking for a plebiscite on the allocation"
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