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    "id": 1088928,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kikuyu, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Kimani Ichung’wah",
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        "legal_name": "Anthony Kimani Ichung'Wah",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairman. I oppose this amendment. My reason is simple, as I had stated earlier. Yes, you are putting private capital but this private capital is expected to be recouped from public funds not through profits from some enterprise. Therefore, it is important and imperative that the Office of the Auditor General is involved in audit of any project where public money is being used, whether it is at the beginning of the project, at inception or at the end of the project. I want to give the example of this Expressway from Jomo Kenyatta International Airport (JKIA) to ABC Place, Westlands. As much as it is China Road and Bridge Corporation (CRBC) or whoever it is that is putting their private capital into that project, if you fail to involve the Auditor General, what will happen is that a private entrepreneur who is in that project for profit will come and expend billions of shillings. You remember, the leader of FORD-K, Hon. Moses Wetangula, the other day in the Senate giving statistics of how much money was projected to be spent on that project during the Mwai Kibaki regime, and how much, almost three times, is being expended today under the Jubilee Administration. Had we involved the Auditor General in determining what amount of money would go into that project, we would make sure that Kenyans get value for money. Therefore, I strongly oppose any insinuation that we can have the public spend their money on projects that are actually public assets without the involvement of the office that constitutionally is charged with ensuring that Kenyans are getting value for money. I strongly oppose that amendment."
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