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    "id": 866722,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/866722/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kibwezi West, Independent",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. (Dr.) Patrick Musimba",
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        "legal_name": "Patrick Mweu Musimba",
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    "content": "Bringing this closer home, and that is why this is so important, we have counties which are a reality. There is no point to disenfranchise one county to another due to technology. With the counties in place, we want all of them to communicate seamlessly as funding is a critical element in terms of revenue allocations and how efficient they move it so that we do not have days where we used to process payrolls for a period of 10 days. We have a cyclical circle of paying, till today we are still in that catch 22 basis when it comes paying salaries of over 30 days and we are now on the verge… We earlier talked about innovations such as M-Pesa and Pesalink where you can pay instant amounts upto Kshs999,000 within five minutes bank to bank transfers. We are at the moment where we need to move our economies through ICT by being able to process payments schemes for over 15 days or even every week and this will accelerate the effect of money within our economy. The county reality beacons us to ensure that technology is neutral among all the 47 counties in Kenya to be able to have things like disruptors. If you look at WhatsApp, we are able to make video conferencing calls to each other. This particular feature is not available on our already existing providers. This will take a different dimension in terms of how we are communicating on our already existing providers, how we are cutting down costs of conferencing and how efficient we are in terms of running our Governments. Indeed, the world is at our fingertips as we speak, with ICT as our enabler. We look at job creation and most The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposes only. Acertified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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