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    "id": 1057145,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Sakaja",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 13131,
        "legal_name": "Johnson Arthur Sakaja",
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    "content": "The NMS is doing a lot of good work, but the national Government budget is not sustainable for them. The NMS should be properly funded and oversighted. If you ask which vote the NMS is getting their money from even at the national Government level, no one will tell you that kind of information. This morning, the Committee on Labour and Social Welfare was discussing the issue of compensating the traders who were evicted from the Railways Club Ground. The members of the Railways Pension Scheme should also be compensated because their land where the NMS is putting up a bus park and a dispensary was valued at Kshs13 billion. Although the NLC says that the land is valued at Kshs9.5 billion, where will the NMS get money to compensate the traders and the retirement scheme? Fortunately, a request for compulsory acquisition was made by the Kenya National Highways Authority (KeNHA) who later realized that they do not need that land. The request for compulsory acquisition of the land is now on behalf of the NMS. I am sure that such a reallocation can be done within Government without much trouble. All in all, we need more sustainable ways of funding that entity. At the end of his financial year, it will be difficult to audit the Nairobi County Government as well as the NMS. I am grateful that we have come this far. I hope that there are more of these reports that are coming for us to debate. The one thing that we must do as a House to make us efficient as we finish this term is that for those of us who are interested in coming back to the Senate, it will be important that in the same way we have a very robust and useful Parliamentary Budget Office (PBO), that we need to set up a Parliamentary Audit Office (PAO). This is a PAO that goes step by step and hand in hand with not just the CPAIC, but with each and every Senator real time. They are able to break down issues for you as you play your oversight role, so that it is not subjective and political. Let me say someone The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate."
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