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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Kibiru",
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        "legal_name": "Charles Reubenson Kibiru",
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    "content": "Thank you, Madam Temporary Speaker. From the onset, I stand to support the disbursement schedule. We will definitely require to see results for the Kshs314 billion that we are taking to the counties. Once in a while, I look at counties as a firm or organisation. I look at the electorate as the stakeholders or shareholders. At the end of the financial year, shareholders ask what the bottom line is. They also ask what you have done with the money that they entrusted to you to do business and carry out issues or development. Several issues have been mentioned by Members. One of the issues that is coming up is about pending bills, which I have heard the Chairperson of the Committee on County Public Accounts and Investments (CPAIC) mention. Madam Temporary Speaker, this is a huge bill. One of the things that is happening is that, everywhere we go in this country, people are saying that there is no money. People are wondering what happened to money. Some of these monies are in the pending bills. There are people who did genuine businesses, whose property is being auctioned by banks because they supplied and have not been paid, one and half or two years down the line.This is an issue that should be addressed so that the genuine suppliers are paid. Let the law take its course on those who did not do genuine supplies. Madam Temporary Speaker, looking at it also from the national Government, we are only hearing about the external debt and the money that we owe other institutions that have lent money to this country. Nobody is talking about the money that the national Government owes the suppliers, road contractors et cetera . We need to tell the national and county governments to stop misusing supplier credit. The more they use the supplier credit, the more they are making the upcoming entrepreneurs go down the drain when it comes to realizing value for the monies they have invested. It is high time that both the national and county governments started practicing prudent ways of doing business by way of honouring contracts. They should pay promptly when certificates are presented. There can never be a more fertile ground for corruption than when one is chasing payments in the national and county governments. Madam Temporary Speaker, if we want to avoid costly projects and corruption, we need to streamline the way we do and contract people to do business. We need to only order for goods that we are ready to pay for. That way, we will increase money circulation in this country and make businesses grow. There has been mention about the way county governments are getting a lot of problems when it comes to dealing with the Budget Office and issues of the Integrated Financial Management Information System (IFMIS). The knowledge that I have The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposes only. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate."
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