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    "id": 1431480,
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    "speaker_name": "Nominated, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. John Mbadi",
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        "legal_name": "John Mbadi Ng'ong'o",
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    "content": "made this proposal, which went to the Departmental Committee on Finance and National Planning, the Committee was initially very receptive. However, when the National Treasury appeared before the Committee, it made a complete about-turn and somersault. Now, my Bill has been rejected. How on earth would a Committee kill a Bill that is supposed to come to 349 Members of Parliament to make a determination and a decision on, and then we come here and complain about how Article 223 is being misused? We have allowed the Executive to misuse this Article at will and to actually steal from the people of Kenya - taxpayers’ money. Hon. Temporary Speaker, as I wind up, I want to mention that I support the allocation of money for flood mitigation and particularly for reconstruction. The constituency I have represented for 15 years in this House, which I continue to live in and hope to continue representing in the future, Suba South, had the worst disaster that we have ever encountered - Sindo. We lost lives. There is a Mzee who lost his three children and his home together with his land. He could not even construct or bury his three children on that land, and I had to use my money to acquire land for him. Hon. Temporary Speaker, I hope he will be one of the people who will be given money for reconstruction so that he can buy land and build. I only bought one acre for him. He has a family of 10 children, and he lost three of them in a day. He now has seven children and still needs to reconstruct his life. So, this money should not be taken to specific areas. It must be taken and given across the country. We are giving money for fertiliser subsidy but the same is being stolen. This House made a resounding decision on the Cabinet Secretary. A few of us went and sanitised it later. These are the things we should not do because Kenyans get fatigued with taxation. When their taxes are being misused, they get fatigued and are not happy. When they see us, they see criminals who are participating in sanitising people who are stealing their money. Finally, I have heard, listened and agreed with what Hon. Deputy Speaker said about ensuring that there is prudent use of resources. I support that. However, as we call upon PAC to scrutinise these accounts, it should not be lost to this House that we are under-funding a very key institution called the Office of the Auditor-General. If you look at the financial reports that we receive from this Office, there is a rush in compiling and auditing them. We need more resources in this Office, so that they can do forensic and special audits which are more detailed. In fact, the few special audits that I have before my Committee are so detailed and damning in their findings. However, if you look at the financial audits, you do not expect the PAC to bring damning reports. Where will they come from? The Office of the Auditor-General is not well resourced to do proper audit. Let us give them money to do proper audit and come up with special and forensic audits. PAC will bring reports that can be used to control and manage corruption in this country. Hon. Temporary Speaker, with those many remarks, I support the Motion."
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