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    "id": 987915,
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    "content": "Despite the need to reduce expenditure, we should prioritize payment of pending bills, especially those that have already been verified in order to protect the businesses that supply goods and services to the national Government and the county governments. We took up this matter with the Cabinet Secretary, National Treasury, to also ensure that together with the Controller of Budget, they enforce the requirement that even our county governments pay our small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) that are supplying in the counties. This is one of the ways to ensure that we cushion our people and ensure that there is money circulating in the economy. Funds allocated for cushioning the vulnerable against the COVID-19 pandemic on livelihoods, especially cash transfer to the poor for purchase of food to sustain families, should be channeled through the State Department for Social Protection and State Department for Arid and Semi-Arid Lands, respectively. This is for ease of identification of beneficiaries and the use of existing structures to expedite the process. There has been reported cases of chiefs and"
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