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    "id": 633702,
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    "speaker_name": "March 16, 2016 SENATE DEBATES 14 Sen. (Dr.) Khalwale",
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    "content": "Madam Temporary Speaker, before we interrogate this Statement, it must occur to the House that the Chairman has decided to give us an abridged version of the Report of the Controller of Budget. The intention of this question on pending bills was for us to extract answers from respective governors. The Chairman has failed to do that. Madam Temporary Speaker, allow me to remind the Chairman that we wanted each governor to tell us how those bills were incurred in view of the fact that before any tenders are approved, money is usually made available and with the approval of the Controller of Budget, the governor is then able to receive the money because he will pay out to the respective tenders. They were also supposed to tell us how they intend to settle those pending bills because they run into billions. In addition, they were supposed to tell us on what projects these pending bills were incurred. So, you would want to guide the Chairman whether we want to give him time to go and extract those answers to inform this House or we proceed. As you make that decision, may I also bring it to the attention of the Chairman that he has deliberately left out Nairobi City County from his list and yet it is the worst culprit. It has got pending bills running into excess of Kshs64 billion. At the time Governor Kidero went into office, he found pending bills of Kshs11.3 billion only. It is important that he tells the country what this money was spent on. Madam Temporary Speaker, before you guide us, allow me to laud Busia County. It is the only county that does not have pending bills."
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