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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Cheruiyot",
    "speaker_title": "The Senate Majority Leader",
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        "legal_name": "Aaron Kipkirui Cheruiyot",
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    "content": "In conclusion, allow me to speak about what we are asking from each of our committees. I know Sen. Osotsi and other colleagues have spoken and asked why we cannot allow the office of Auditor-General to carry this audit for us? However, I want to point them to Article 214 of our Constitution on public debt. That is our primary responsibility. It is us who approve this public debt. Therefore, there is nothing that stops us from calling for the books and ensuring that what is captured in the books of the Auditor- General as well as what the National Treasury submits to Parliament are in agreement. All we are asking our Committee on Finance and Budget is to first of all verify and ensure that there is an accurate record of our debt status as a nation up to this point. Then, go further and establish which are these organisations or countries in the form of sovereign debt that we owe these funds, and what was achieved with those funds. We know for a fact that in the audit report of 2015, the then Auditor- General Edward Ouko pointed out that there might be a possibility that some of the proceeds of the first Euro Bond never made it to the country."
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