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    "id": 1057169,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Wambua",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 13199,
        "legal_name": "Enoch Kiio Wambua",
        "slug": "enoch-kiio-wambua"
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    "content": "Kenya will be debating the audit reports for the 2017/2018 Financial Year, I want to see what they will say about particular investments in my own county. I think very few people in this country do not know something called Kitui County Textile Center (KICOTEC) in Kitui County. Just scratching the surface of it, you will open a can of worms for a lot of things and many people. In the first place, an investment that continues to take up public resources when it was established even before Kitui County Assembly passed the necessary enabling law. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, wonders will never cease. The other day, I saw my Governor basking in the glory of an announcement that she was making Kitui the first inland artificial beach. Who does these things? Who takes public money to go and invest in certain projects? I do not want to turn this into a session of poking holes in the administration of finances by the County Government of Kitui. The only thing that made me want to contribute to this Report is to ask the hard question. What is the value of these reports in our work? Beyond getting an opportunity to ventilate on them, apportioning blame on certain people and offices, what is the value of these reports? Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, if we are dealing with 2014/2015 today, what remedies are available to correct the messes that were made then? We know very well that between 2015 and today, a lot more mess has been visited on the administration of finances belonging to the finances in the counties. I would like to recommend two things. We should create proper synergies between the office of the Controller of Budget and the office of the Auditor-General, and by extension, all the audit institutions that have a bearing on the management of public resources in our counties. I think that is what Sen. Mutula Kilonzo Jnr. was suggesting. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, the other day, I had issues with the Controller of Budget. I wrote to them asking very basic questions. The first question was: How is it that ever so often, staff in Kitui County go without pay and the staff in other counties are being paid? At what point does the Controller of Budget (CoB) authorize expenditure by the county government to an extent that there is not money to pay salaries for staff?"
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