Entry Instance

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

{
    "id": 968062,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/968062/?format=api",
    "text_counter": 91,
    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. (Eng.) Mahamud",
    "speaker_title": "",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 373,
        "legal_name": "Mohammed Maalim Mahamud",
        "slug": "mohammed-mahamud"
    },
    "content": "report should also find out whether the county governments had made any significant efforts to clear the pending bills, and whether sufficient measures have been put in place to mitigate the issue of pending bills. The investigation plan is also supposed to come up with the documents we did and refer to as well as the methodology adopted. We still met the CoB, and she took us through the whole process. We looked at the issue of pending bills. The investigation report was forwarded to Parliament, as required, the Senate being one House of Parliament. I am sure that the other House also received the report. The report referred us to the issues before the CoB, the National Treasury and ourselves. In fact, when we recall that at the end of June, 2018, pending bills were recorded at Kshs108 billion. However, an audit was carried out by the Auditor-General, and according to the report that was sent to us by the CoB, it shows that the 15 counties that are here--- First of all, by the time we met the CoB, Baringo County had already cleared the bills, so Baringo is not among the 15 anymore. Mr. Speaker Sir, the report which was given to us by the CoB is annexed to the report. It is part of the report, and I hope that the report is being circulated to the Members. We also invited the CS, who took us through all the pending bills issues, the eligible pending bills as per the Auditor-General, which ones are ineligible, what has been paid so far, and what is outstanding as of 30th November, 2019. As a Committee, we invited the governors of the 15 counties to appear before us. This meeting took place yesterday at the Kenyatta International Convention Centre (KICC), and the turnout was very commendable. Quite a number of governors came and they gave us their position on what is being done on the issue of pending bills. Mr. Speaker, Sir, because the timelines are very tight, once the Cabinet Secretary (CS) issues a notice of intention to stop funds, you are supposed to get a report from the Controller of Budget (CoB) within 14 days. These 14 days lapse on the third; so, we will get that in due time. Thereafter, within 30 days, we are supposed to make a decision whether to approve or disapprove the decision of the CS."
}