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    "id": 1026479,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Suba South, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. John Mbadi",
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        "legal_name": "John Mbadi Ng'ong'o",
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    "content": " Hon. Speaker, thank you very much. While I appreciate the value of virtual meetings – and the few that I have participated in are equally very important and they serve the purpose – I think the matter that Hon. Opiyo Wandayi has raised is very critical. The mandate of this PAC and also by extension the Public Investments Committee (PIC) is to examine books of accounts and the reports of the Auditor-General. It is not practical to examine books of accounts virtually. You really need the tabling of those documents. There is need to cross-reference. You need to have the presence of the Office of Auditor-General who would take you through. I have been a Member of the PIC for five years and PAC for another five years and I know that really to examine these books and give value to the taxpayers of this country, there may be need to exempt these two committees from this rule by getting a physical space that would accommodate them. The membership is 19 and over 90 per cent of meetings are not attended 100 per cent. So, you will have about 12 to a maximum of 15 members. However, even if the entire membership was to be present, I am sure that the many chambers at County Hall can accommodate 19 members or at worse even the plenary on a day like Thursday. This is because from next week we will be meeting on Wednesdays."
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