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    "id": 641383,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Mutula Kilonzo Jnr.",
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        "legal_name": "Mutula Kilonzo Jnr",
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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I am happy to report that the Committee on Finance, Commerce and Budget does not agree with the information that has been put in this statement in terms of delay in disbursement of funds. We have been very clear to the Cabinet Secretary in charge of the National Treasury that Article 219 is very clear. It reads:- “A county’s share of revenue raised by the national government shall be transferred to the county without undue delay and without deduction, except when the transfer has been stopped under Article 225.” Although I have read this statement as it is, I would like to assure the Senators that the Committee on Finance, Commerce and Budget has made it clear to them. According to the National Treasury, when they attended a meeting called by the Committee on Finance, Commerce and Budget, they introduced criteria which affected even my own county because we had a high balance without asking the respective counties why they have a large balance. They started the practice of delay of disbursement of funds to counties and introduced discretion. Will I be in order to suggest that by the time we come back from recess, we will have another statement that clarifies the fact that the conditions set out and the discretionary principles that are set out here by the Cabinet Secretary are not in the Public Finance Management (PFM) Act, neither are they in the Constitution. They are discretionary principles which are unconstitutional to that extent."
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