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    "content": "I want to be very clear. I am not in the business of covering up for anyone because I am not privy to any information. Probably, the Leader of the Majority Party does. I also want to clarify that regarding the expenditure under Article 223 of the Constitution, as I promised here, we have already asked the office of the Auditor-General to do a special audit for all those expenditures that have been incurred this financial year that is ending. I also know that the Auditor-General is overwhelmed, but we have asked her to specifically audit that. Finally, when I sought this clarification, I hope it was understood that I am just wondering that when it comes to public expenditure, to avoid politicising it, you need to have an independent audit. That is what I thought. Otherwise, we may end up just playing to the gallery, playing politics, and having some public officers… By the way, any public officer who appears before Parliament will always try to exonerate himself or herself. To be sure that the officers appearing before us are telling the truth, we need a proper audit of the funds. Once we have the audit report, the officers concerned will, therefore, address themselves. At the moment, it is all about rumours in my view, which may be addressed before the Committee. That was my concern. Are we dealing with a case where an independent body has audited and if not, is it the right way to proceed? If this House, through you, Hon. Speaker, feels that we can go that way, I have no problem. I will have my time to deal with these accounts at the appropriate time, but I was just worried that we are proceeding in a manner that seems like we are investigating a public expenditure without involving the office of the Auditor-General which is mandated through our Constitution to be looking at our expenditure and reporting on them. That is my concern. It has nothing to do with interest. I absolutely have no interest. I do not have an account outside Kenya. My accounts are only in Co-operative Bank of Kenya, Kenya Commercial Bank (KCB) and Diamond Trust Bank (DTB). You can go and check. There is no money which has… I have never carried anything with a chopper apart from myself and maybe, my accompanying luggage. I have never carried money in a chopper. That is my point."
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