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    "id": 1232468,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Cheruiyot",
    "speaker_title": "The Senate Majority Leader",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 13165,
        "legal_name": "Aaron Kipkirui Cheruiyot",
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    "content": "Committee is proposing a change to either Public Finance Management (PFM) Act or any other law. Therefore, we appreciate the work. I also appreciate the work of the Committee on Delegated Legislation, led by Sen. Gataya Mo Fire. I know there are various legislations that are presently before them and the National Assembly. This is one of the areas where we continue to have a big fight with our colleagues from the National Assembly. Unless we are vigilant as a House, I see regulations – which in one way or the other – did not find their way into this House, quickly approved by the Committee on Delegated Legislation of the National Assembly. One of the things I quickly do is pick a phone and ask Sen. Gataya Mo Fire whether those legislations were brought to this House. It is important that as House, we consider all regulations which in one way or the other, affect the operations of county governments. You will struggle hard to find any regulation that does not concern operations of county governments. Lastly, Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, is a question I have tabled before this House before, on the need for the House to think beyond the after-the-fact nature in which CPIC and CPAC continue to work. If you ask any Senator present here today – who is keen to the works and goings-on in their counties – they will tell you that they have concerns. They will tell you their county government intends to hire, yet that county has burst their ceiling on recurrent expenditure and that kind of things. Which is the specific Committee? We can either add responsibility to Public Investments Committee (PIC) or Public Accounts Committee (PAC). Alternatively, we can think of a new Committee. Each day, Senators continue to use the Floor of this House to send and sound warning to their county governments on various issues of governance malpractice practised in our counties. Unfortunately, the same have no place to be anchored on so that you can respond to it. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, it is unfortunate that we have to wait for a report from the Office of the Auditor-General to react to. The truth of the matter is that it does not matter even if our Auditors General are properly trained and prepared, they cannot know a specific county better than the individual Senator. It is unfortunate that we have to rely on them. We used to see old tricks that continue to emerge. You will find an auditor has gone to Vihiga County and they will find a road that has been named or done twice. Such a road would be captured as a road from point A to B; and in another bunch of documents, the same road is named from point B to A. Unless you are a resident of that county, you are not likely to pick it up. Therefore, we need to think about it critically."
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