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    "id": 771778,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Wetangula",
    "speaker_title": "The Senate Minority Leader",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 210,
        "legal_name": "Moses Masika Wetangula",
        "slug": "moses-wetangula"
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    "content": " Mr. Speaker, Sir, before I second, as a matter of House etiquette, our Standing Orders require that when any Member is on his feet, as the Senate Majority Leader was, the rest of the Members can either be in motion or seated. Did you notice the Majority Whip standing behind there and fiddling with her phone for the last almost 20 minutes? That is un-procedural and a flouting of the rules. Similarly, a Nominated Senator has been on her feet talking to Sen. (Prof.) Kindiki for the last 10 minutes. It is again out of order and I urge you to rule as such. We are a House of rules and etiquette. Mr. Speaker, Sir, as I second, I want to encourage that the disbursement of funds to the counties should not be a matter of discretion by the national Government. Many counties are suffering and their development programmes have come to a halt. Every other month, the only money being disbursed to the counties is for recurrent expenditure; just to pay salaries to ensure that there are no strikes everywhere. We want to see that the national Treasury, the Controller of Budget and all those involved in disbursement of funds, disburse these funds to the counties on time, so that they can run their functions and make sure that everything that needs to be done, including salary payments, is done. What happens is that at the end of the month, some counties are forced to go and borrow commercial loans to run their recurrent activities, including payment of salaries, waiting for money to be paid. As we know, the interest rates in commercial banks are quite high. The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposes"
}