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    "id": 1261996,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Dullo",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Dullo Fatuma Adan",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir. I support this Motion. I give a rider on the statement made by the Majority Leader that there is a CoB representative attached to the Senators. I wish the Committee on Finance and Budget Chairperson or Vice- Chairperson was here to take this information back to the Committee. At the initial stage when the Senate was established, we had a lot of problems as far as getting to understand what is happening in the county. Fortunately, as the Majority Leader, Sen. Cheruiyot has said, we were able to know the kind of budgets that was going to the counties. However, there is a bit that is quite challenging. I think maybe the Senate should be able to move to another level to ask for the information as far as budget that is passed at the county level. Mr. Speaker, Sir, you will realize that supplementary budgets are passed at the County Assembly level. If you ask the representative of the COB to give you a copy of that budget, he will refer you back to the CoB Headquarters which is not right. The reason why they were put there in those positions is to link up with you so that you can get the information. Secondly, on the expenditure report of the county governments, in some of the counties, they are never tabled in the county assemblies. I think it is important for Senators to get expenditure report of the County Executive, so that we can really understand how the money that we have passed here is being utilized and implemented at the county level. I hope the Chairperson of the Committee on Finance and Budget could have a discussion with the CoB, so that Senators can have the information as far as how the budget is utilized at the county level. I thank you."
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