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    "id": 968882,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kitui West, WDM-K",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. (Ms.) Edith Nyenze",
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        "legal_name": "Edith Nyenze",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker for giving me this time to contribute briefly on this Report on the financial statements as laid down by the Public Accounts Committee. I congratulate them for tabling the statements on time. We hope they will improve next time, so that we only have one year pending. I would like to comment on the Report that there has been a slow absorption of funds. This is brought about by the Exchequer taking time to release funds. They should take a shorter time to release the funds because there are so many projects which are unfunded. It is not that the country cannot absorb the money, but the issue is the time taken to release the funds. There should be improvement on such. The other issue is on pending bills especially in county governments. Most county governments have an issue of pending bills. In some counties, people have done work, but have not been paid for years. Some people have even over-borrowed and gone through depression. Some people have even died because they borrowed heavily from banks and have not been paid. This is the right time to push the Government, so that pending bills are paid. In future, we should engage people and pay them immediately. We should have very few supplementary budgets. We should budget for what is necessary and try to avoid supplementary budgets. If we are not careful, this is where some things get into the budget which were not intended or anticipated. It is good the Committee also observed and talked about supplementary budgets. I congratulate the Controller of Budget who was approved today. I wish her the best and hope that she will contribute in making sure that Government funds are well spent. With that, I support the Report and congratulate the Committee."
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