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    "id": 694590,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Dr.) Khalwale",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 170,
        "legal_name": "Bonny Khalwale",
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    "content": "Mr. Speaker, Sir, I thank the Controller of Budget for taking so long to confirm that the County Assembly of Nyeri was right in finding that Kshs70 million had been spent without the authorization of the Controller of Budget. This is because where I come from, a sum of Kshs70million is a lot of money and the members of the public are watching. It is as simple as this: You have left money in the house for the servant to spend Kshs545 for lunch, since there was other money in the safe in this house, the servant spends Kshs615 and your class eight child who is very clever says there is a deficit of Kshs70. I am glad that you have confirmed that in Nyeri, the County Assembly was right that Kshs70 million was spent without authorization. My question is: I have looked at Article 228 of the Constitution that captures your responsibility and nowhere do I see it giving you the power to arbitrate on disputes. You are now telling this Sitting that you want this matter to rest because on Friday you are going to arbitrate over it. Can you help me so that you clear my fears that this is a consideration that you are being driven into doing by the County Government of Nyeri, so as to sanitize them having been found to have committed an error? Finally, if the County Government of Nyeri had the bad manners of spending money before they banked in the first quarter and you discovered, when you found that the bad manners had not been repeated in the second and subsequent quarters, could you confirm that that does not free them from the mistake that they did in the initial incidence?"
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