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    "id": 1075751,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Mutula Kilonzo Jnr.",
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        "legal_name": "Mutula Kilonzo Jnr",
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    "content": "good thing to happen. The Controller of Budget and the Auditor-General are, therefore, put to task. I have said this in terms of our reforms to the Public Financial Management Act and we have made a note. There is a gentleman who is called Njoroge and in our old Constitution, he would be the Controller of Budget and the Auditor-General. I do not know why we should not have the same person again. We would then have the person releasing Kshs10 to Makueni County be the same person asking where that Kshs10 went to. At the moment, there is a disconnect between the Controller of Budget and the Auditor-General in terms of financial reporting. I am happy with the current Auditor-General. She is asking the right questions. We have been unable to get the National Treasury to ask questions about the Equalization Fund. Fortunately, the Auditor-General has asked why they have not spent the funds allocated in the Equalization Fund. Only 30 per cent of the funds that have been allocated since 2010 have been spent yet counties like Samburu, Marsabit, Mandera, Isiolo, Tana River and Kitui are supposed to benefit from the Equalization Fund. Those counties are still wallowing waiting to excel to the extent we proposed to extend the term limit and the sunset clause to 30 years in the Constitution Amendment Bill. If you cannot perform what you are supposed to do in 20 years, what makes you think that you can achieve it in 30 years? I am happy with the Auditor-General and we must continue supporting her so as to get the audit reports quickly. The Auditor-General requested that we change the reporting framework. If we are to achieve the complete audits then we have to synchronize the financial year together with the reports on audit because there is a disparity. That is what the Auditor-General is proposing. When we do that, we will get real time reports the same way we have dealt with the counties expenditure on Covid-19 funds. In support of this Bill, we must insist on our legacy irrespective of having governors who are pilfering funds. Our legacy, as a Senate, will be on the amount of resources that we have managed to devolve to the county governments. In future, we will get good governors. We have had a string of bad governors across the board but we have not impeached enough and they have not impeached enough at the county level. Since we operate on good faith and hope that we will have a country where people are responsible for the resources that are devolved to counties, then there should be good results for the Kshs53 billion we have devolved to the counties this financial year."
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