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    "id": 633751,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Billow",
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        "legal_name": "Billow Adan Kerrow",
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    "content": "Thank you, Madam Temporary Speaker. First, I want to advise the Members that personally - I appreciate the concern by the Senators - I have no doubt that pending bills will be over Kshs100 billion as I speak today. To find a solution, if we interrogate the law carefully, I am sure we will find a way in which we can demand that the county governments, not only provide the detailed information, but also limit the ability by the county governments to put the public into debt. That is the most important to do in order to make sure that the public do not supply services or goods to counties without clear guidelines. The law is very clear; that they ought to be having their own rules. I think we can determine that. Madam Temporary Speaker, I want to thank the CS, Treasury because last month he issued a circular to all commercial banks warning them against lending money to county governments. That is something that we need to support because if we did not close that tap of commercial banks, they were going to borrow again more money through the commercial banks. I think there was a genuine risk that county governments are likely to borrow at will."
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