Entry Instance

HTTP 200 OK
Allow: GET, PUT, PATCH, DELETE, HEAD, OPTIONS
Content-Type: application/json
Vary: Accept

{
    "id": 865522,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/865522/?format=api",
    "text_counter": 102,
    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. (Eng.) Hargura",
    "speaker_title": "",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 827,
        "legal_name": "Godana Hargura",
        "slug": "godana-hargura"
    },
    "content": "Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, thank you. I would like to also thank Sen. Wambua for bringing up this issue. I am, however, surprised, because I worked in the Civil Service a few years back. Before, we used to have budgets and at every end of the financial year, whatever money you had left was sent back to the national Treasury. Therefore, how counties are generating pending bills is a surprise because none of their money goes back. Once you have a budget, you should have a procurement plan that you follow. Whatever you procure, you must have it in your budget. Therefore, why counties are having pending bills of up to Kshs120 billion is just criminal since it does not follow procurement laws and action needs to be taken against the governors. It is that simple! It is not that they have pending bills anywhere; it is somebody who is not paying for what they have procured. They procure a contract then they do supplementary and divert the funds to another project and they procure again. Kenyans are losing their money in this kind of practices and it needs to stop."
}