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    "id": 943007,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Halake",
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        "legal_name": "Abshiro Soka Halake",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir. Sorry for the confusion. I rise to support the Motion on the adoption of the Report on Sessional Committee on County Public Accounts and Investments on Accounts of county governments that are listed for Busia, Elgeyo Marakwet, Embu, Kajiado, Kericho, and the rest. The issue of public accounts is one that is very worrying. I am sure in a few minutes we are going to discuss the country’s debt. However, when I looked through the accounts of all these counties, each one of them has so much debt that when we talk of perhaps a debt ceiling for this country, we must include what counties are owing. This is because I think the numerical ceiling perhaps would already have burst. I think we have seen that our counties are really dying under the pending bills. These pending bills, most of them may not even be verifiable. Throughout the accounts of these counties, each one of them is suffering from very irregular procurements that do not adhere to any public financial management accounts. These procurements are not following any procedure and or any system. Each one of the items that cannot be accounted for and which is contributing to the pending bills is the irregular procurement in our counties that is causing a lot of problems for supplies and service provision to our counties. Mr. Speaker, Sir, again, I have seen in the report that there is poor bookkeeping all across these counties, where the financial accounts and procurement documents are not in order and there is no support documentation for any of the things that have been incurred."
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