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    "id": 1218886,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Nominated, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. John Mbadi",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "John Mbadi Ng'ong'o",
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    "content": "Two, on a matter like this, before you investigate an expenditure, you need the office of the Auditor-General to audit it. If there is no audit by the office of the Auditor-General, how then do you proceed to investigate a matter? I really belaboured this point because I know chances are that politics may end up at play. As the Chair of PAC, I will be the last person to allow politics to cloud my work and responsibility. We run the risk of politicising a very serious matter of public expenditure, if we do not follow it methodically by allowing, first, the office of the Auditor-General to audit the expenditures and then bring a report to the House and hold all the officers who are culpable to account. My concerns are two. To what extent should the Public Petitions Committee go when it comes to public expenditure? Two, as a House, can we continue to investigate a matter of public expenditure without the Auditor-General being given the first bite at it by auditing it and reporting to us professionally, so that it is dealt with properly? As Members of Parliament, we are not experts. We rely on experts who are in the office of the Auditor-General. Thank you, Hon. Speaker."
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