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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Midiwo",
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    "content": "Thank you Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. Thank you for being very kind. I am sorry. Somehow, I cannot find my card or my wallet. I am sitting next to Hon. Chris. I do not know if Hon. Chris has all over a sudden become bad. I will find out. I rise to support the Public Finance Management (Amendment) Bill. It is good to clarify to my colleague, the Member for Bomet Central, Hon. Tonui, that this is not the Finance Bill. This is the Public Finance Management (Amendment) Bill. The object of it speaks on the title. What it seeks to do is very good for this country and it is timely. We should have done this before we allowed funding to the counties. The financial mess and chaos we find ourselves in, in this country is phenomenal. As it has been raised by the speaker who has just concluded speaking, it will be nice for the Departmental Committee on Finance, Planning and Trade to thoroughly address itself to this Bill. I agree that it needs to be done as soon as possible, but it will be nice to allow some days of proper thought. Let me begin by saying that where our country has reached with the NGCDF, we need not reinvent the wheel. Part of the way NGCDF has been managed, the Departmental Committee on Finance, Planning and Trade needs to bring a Report here that has copied many sections of that management process. We talk about pending bills. There need not be any pending bill in the counties. What happens is that when budgets are passed, these budgets of the counties, like the national budget, are itemised. What they do is if they were supposed to construct some roads, tenders are given but money comes and they divert it to other uses and the contractors are not paid, hence the pending bills. That is an illegality. All we need to do is to put it in this Bill that what we are financing must be that which was passed in the budget so that when that work is done, the money should go direct to the contractor. It is not happening now. I know people who did works in the 2013/2014 Budget and nobody is now even picking their calls. These are Kenyans who borrowed monies from banks. They are stuck with the principal money they borrowed and the interest rates as they are in our country. Lives are being ruined while the intention of devolution was to make money circulate and improve the lives of our people. It is interesting how that was missed and has been misconstrued as a loophole while it is not. Because everybody is behaving daft as if there is a loophole, let us put it in law. This House The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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