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    "id": 924662,
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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Orengo",
    "speaker_title": "The Senate Minority Leader",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Aggrey James Orengo",
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    "content": "The other important issue that was constitutionalized more prominently compared to the last Constitution is the issue of public debt. If you look at the whole process of raising revenue, as set out in this statute that the Committee has set out and the whole process of planning, because every county is required to have a five year plan on which all development is based on and revenue directed in accordance with those county plans. Madam Temporary Speaker, there is the issue of budget-making and appropriation. This is because appropriation is not just done at the national level through Parliament, but also at the county assemblies. There is also the question of incurring expenditure; that before a county can incur expenditure, there must have been a plan or a program based on a five-year plan. Before you can spend, there must have been budgeting and, therefore, it means there is revenue available which can be located in the budget under particular categories or Vote Heads. Before expenditure, there must be authority, and before that authority is given, there must be supporting documents which will ensure that all these processes have been undertaken. If only this can be done and the law followed--- A lot of times when you look at what the counties are doing, they turn the law upside down; and Sen. M. Kajwang’ referred to it. Madam Temporary Speaker, the issue of public participation is also turned upside down. We have professional persons who participate in meetings, which are christened ‘public participation.’ However, they are actually mercenaries that the county government relies on to override that hurdle in order to make sure that the issue of public participation is attained."
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