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    "id": 697620,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/697620/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Sang",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Stephen Kipyego Sang",
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    "content": "Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I join my colleagues in congratulating Members of the County Assembly (MCAs) of Garissa for bringing this particular Petition. It must be understood by everybody and especially governors that the responsibility of county assemblies is to deal with the budget. The law provides on how to resolve crisis or disagreement arising from the budgeting process. Therefore, the tendency by governors to ignore provisions of the Public Finance Management Act on how to resolve challenges--- Sometimes, governors intentionally engage that so that there is a lacuna for them to misuse public resources. Whereas I know the timelines within our Standing Orders in terms of resolving some of the petitions is 60 days, this is a very urgent matter. Whichever committee that will be given the responsibility to handle this Petition should do so within the shortest time possible. It should even handle it within 14 days, so that we help the County Government of Garissa to move on. However, county assemblies must be concerned and be keen with the implementation of the budget, especially in this last financial year towards elections, lest we lose a lot of resources in our budgets into the campaign mode by governors. At the end of the day, when we get back to our counties after the elections, we will have nothing to celebrate about. Therefore, I caution all governors, including my own. He must utilise the last budget for the better of the people of Nandi. I thank you."
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