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    "id": 1033570,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. (Prof.) Ongeri",
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        "legal_name": "Samson Kegeo Ongeri",
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    "content": "Mr. Speaker, Sir, you will recall that the Sessional Committees were re- constituted on 4th May, 2020, as opposed to the commencement of the 4th Session, thereby losing approximately three months. Following the re-constitution of its membership, the Committee convened on 25th June, 2020 and elected Sen. (Prof.) Sam K. Ongeri, EBS, EGH, MP, and Sen. (Eng.) Hargura Godana, MP as the Chairperson and Vice Chairperson, respectively. Mr. Speaker, Sir, I wish to provide details of Committee activities as follows- Meetings: During the period under review the Committee held a total of 91 sittings. On 9th June, 2020 and 17th June, 2020, the Committee published in the dailies schedules of appearances for the county executives and county assemblies respectively. In a bid to recover the lost time, and noting that it had only five 5 months of intensive operations before the end of the session, the Committee resolved to hold sittings daily from Monday to Friday for three consecutive weeks in each month. The sittings would run through mornings and afternoons when the Senate was in recess, and only mornings when the Senate had Plenary sittings. Since the Committee handles voluminous documentation, it was noted that it was difficult to effectively scrutinize and consider such documentation on virtual platforms. The Committee, therefore, successfully appealed to the Speaker to be allowed to hold physical sittings. Stakeholder Engagement: The Committee plans to hold a consultative meeting with the big five; that is, the Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission (EACC) The National Treasury, the Controller of Budget (CoB), the Attorney General and the Auditor General, in order to discuss close-cutting and salient issues identified from the interrogations of the audit Committee for the county executives and County Assemblies."
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