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    "id": 998602,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Limuru, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Peter Mwathi",
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        "legal_name": "Peter Mungai Mwathi",
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    "content": "Secondly, Hon. Speaker, there was mention in the morning about pending bills and everybody is talking about them. But it is very interesting that pending bills accumulate when we have accounting officers who are supposed, in the first instance, to ensure that every other project which is done is paid promptly. I want to cite one of the agencies that we oversee which retrenched people who were owed Kshs52 million. It took us, as a Committee, to try to get money from wherever they had put, including in development, to cushion the people who had been retrenched. It is COVID-19 time, then they are denied their terminal dues, and there was no provision. Some of those agencies that are doing this to our own people are not sensitive to the plight of Kenyans. Hon. Speaker, I saw it in the same area and I think we need to ask ourselves: When we are budgeting, are we going to be getting financial performance reports of a project or technical percentages of completion? Honestly, I saw one which was termed as 100 per cent complete but on the ground, there was nothing. When I asked, they said the 100 per cent completion only pertained to finance. So, I asked what was spent in this finance. They were preliminary reports and The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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