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    "id": 633746,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/633746/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. (Prof.) Anyang’-Nyong’o",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 193,
        "legal_name": "Peter Anyang' Nyong'o",
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    "content": "Madam Speaker, I do understand how complex this problem is and the answer lies somewhere between what Sen. Billow and Sen. Abdirahman said. I remember from the Pending Bills Committee that we had in the NARC, it was a Government committee composed of Ministries and other government agencies. The experience was that even after looking at the records of the Auditor-General, they were not adequate; that criminality hides behind official reports and we have to do more than just relying on Government auditors to discover what is happening. Madam Temporary Speaker, I would recommend that what Sen. Billow has suggested is that we should have a discussion between the two committees and consult - borrowing from the experience of the Pending Bills Committee of NARC - to find out under our circumstances, what can be done to address this problem. My fear is that, next year, elections will be in August. By that time, neither the Auditor-General nor the Controller of Budget will have up to date figures on pending bills and yet we need to arrest county governments piling up pending bills and handing the headache to incoming county governments. We must come out with a mechanism for ensuring that we do not have runaway pending bills spree in county governments."
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