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    "id": 735706,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/735706/?format=api",
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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, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir. I want to support what the Senator for Makueni has said with regards to this petition. I do not know the threshold of this particular petition because it sounds like a civil lawsuit. Under Article 225(3)(a), Treasury has a mandate to suspend transfers to county governments if there is material breach of financial regulations. Failure to pay contractors is a material breach of the Public Finance Management (PFM) Act and its regulations. I have advised Kenyans who are owed by county governments and they are not willing to pay them to formally write to Treasury. That will kick in an investigation to be done by the Controller of Budget within seven days. She is mandated by law to submit the report to Treasury, which will then have no choice, but to suspend transfers to county governments. Unless we start seeing some of that action, engaging in this exercise will be futile. We did a similar thing and made a recommendation to Treasury, but they did not act on it. I want to advise other Kenyans who have similar issues to forward their requests for payments with all the documents to Treasury’s Permanent Secretary (PS) who must then order the Controller of Budget to do an investigation within seven days and report to him. That breach of financial regulation will lead to suspension of money being transferred to county government. There is no other way of punishing county governments who are making Kenyans poorer by the day."
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