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    "id": 603256,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/603256/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Lentoimaga",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 2756,
        "legal_name": "Alois Musa Lentoimaga",
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    "content": "Thank you, Hon. Speaker for allowing me to contribute on this Bill which I support. I sincerely thank Hon. Sen. Mutula for bringing this Bill. County governments are new. Apart from being new, most of the staff are also new and inexperienced. Due to high expectations, they can enter into businesses that can be questionable. Our citizens have high expectations and county governments are supposed to deliver. So, one can easily incur huge debts trying to satisfy those expectations. This Bill will go a long way in ensuring that county governments live within their means and use procedures that will ensure that what they borrow or spend is within their means. As an experienced officer in the Civil Service, the major training that we used to get was never to commit the Government and never to use money that was not there. It was a crime to commit a Government. So even county government should ensure that they do not go beyond what they have. They should ensure that they spend what they have. This will ensure that there is no problem when suppliers and contractors ask for their payments. About four years ago the Teachers Service commission (TSC) had a problem with creditors. Some of them threatened to auction the current building at Upper Hill and even to cease vehicles which had parastatal number plates. The Government quickly decided to register those vehicles under the Government of Kenya (GoK) to avoid being ceased by the creditors. The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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