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    "id": 633730,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/633730/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Wamatangi",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 646,
        "legal_name": "Paul Kimani Wamatangi",
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    "content": "Madam Temporary Speaker, I join my colleagues in saying loudly that our county governments cannot continue to be run this way. As my colleague has said, this is a warning signal as to what is most likely going to happen when governors exit office in 2017. The two columns showing how much is pending indicate that recurrent expenditure is about Kshs9 billion and Kshs28 billion development expenditure. What then comes into play is that most of these bills are owed to contractors. What they will do now that they have not been paid, is to seek legal redress and these amounts will be subject to interest. The Kshs28 billion could very easily balloon to another Kshs40 billion or so. One of the strategies that the Committee should take is to come up urgent measures that will pinpoint the most notorious counties to ensure that measures are put in place so that they do not continue to incur expenditures. As my colleague said, if this is left to run that way, a governor who will inherit office from a rogue governor in 2017 will use all of the first allocation he will receive in paying pending bills. Some of my colleagues in the County Public Accounts and Investments Committee (CPAIC) are privy to what happened. For example, we looked at pending bills in one of the county governments, I am sure the Senator for Kakamega will remember this; we discovered that they had ballooned from less than Kshs2 billion to about Kshs53 billion. This is a big issue that needs to be dealt with fully. I support that measures be put in place and a committee be formed so that this does not continue."
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