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    "id": 975574,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Marakwet West, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. William Kisang",
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        "legal_name": "William Kipkemoi Kisang",
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    "content": "calculated at 10 per cent. I hope the Chair of the Budget and Appropriations Committee is listening and he will follow up with the Treasury. There is also the issue of pending bills. There are many businesses that have closed in the last two or three years. There are people who even passed away because their businesses closed or their houses were sold because of pending bills. Many people, especially the youth, persons with disabilities (PWDs) and women have done work with the counties and the national Government because of the 30 per cent rule on procurement, but most of them have not been paid. Recently, we saw in the newspapers that many have supplied services and goods to correctional services, specifically to prisons, but prisons are not paying. They are saying that they will not pay. Those are genuine supplies. As other Members have said, maybe we need to put a conditional amount for each county and also the national Government for each ministry, so that they can pay pending bills. If we do not do that, we will see more businesses closing down. As they close down, we lose jobs and people will not afford to take their children to school. It is important that we put that line item for pending bills as a first charge. There is a pending bill by the Kenya Broadcasting Corporation (KBC). In the last Parliament, I was in the same Committee and there is a pending bill to the Japanese of about Kshs2 billion, which appears in the books of KBC every year. We understand that the National Treasury has already paid it, but we wonder why the Ministry does not engage the National Treasury, so that they can do a Cabinet Memo for the pending bill for KBC to be written-off, so that they can have a healthy financial statement. Currently, KBC owes KRA, the National Social Security Fund (NSSF), the National Hospital Insurance Fund (NHIF) and SACCOs. I hope that will be followed-up, so that the pending bill of Kshs2 billion is written-off from the books of KBC."
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