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    "id": 694631,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Ms. Agnes Adhiambo",
    "speaker_title": "The Controller of Budget",
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        "legal_name": "Joy Adhiambo Gwendo",
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    "content": " Article 252 (1) (b) reads:- “Each Commission and each holder of an independent office has the powers necessary of conciliation, mediation and negotiation.” That is where we draw the powers of conciliation from. On the issue of whether I am aware of the stalemate, yes I am aware. This only came to light about two weeks ago. First, I read it in the newspapers and then met with the county assembly and the county executive. Therefore, it is a very recent matter. Under Article 252, I am attempting to try and bring the two parties together, because the people of Nyeri are suffering. They are not getting services. I am within my mandate to try and bring the two parties together, but if I am unable to, I will then refer them to the Senate and other agencies as well. I have covered issues on the Kshs70 million exhaustively. I will now move on to whether, as an office, we analysed the report that was delivered to us. We have not done so in a lot of detail, because we concentrated on the issues that affected the mandate of the office, which are basically two and I have dealt with them. Therefore, we have not analysed the report in a lot of details. In terms of whether we are aware of the variations in the budget, we are aware as I explained. There were variations between the budget submitted to the county assembly by the county executive and also the County Fiscal Strategy Paper. The variances are not many; they can be resolved. There was also variance between the approved budget by the county assembly and the budget submitted by the county executive. I am also aware that the 1 per cent variation is a matter under consideration by the Senate. Therefore, when I try to bring the two parties together, I will be alive to the position of the Senate and advise accordingly. In terms of what takes precedence if a regulation is inconsistent with the law, I will not pronounce myself on this, because this is the sole mandate of the Attorney General. He is the person mandated to interpret the law. With your permission, I will skip that one. From my record I have addressed all the questions from the distinguished Senators."
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