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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Mumma",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir. Before I ask my supplementary questions, I would want you to note that the Cabinet Secretary for the National Treasury and Economic Planning did not submit a response to Question No.060 (b). Instead, he has suggested that the Senate gets that information from the various ministries. Our Constitution has elaborate provisions on public finance. It contemplates that the National Treasury has been given the role to ensure that it has a macro view of fiscal matters in this country. It is unfortunate that the Cabinet Secretary for the National Treasury and Economic Planning would run away from responding to this. Hon. Cabinet Secretary, I am aware when this Question was brought, you had not been appointed. However, I give free advice that when anybody in this country wants to ask a question on the overview of finance matters, it is you who will be asked. You cannot afford to say that we should ask the ministries to tell us what is happening. Mr. Speaker, Sir, I suggest you rule that the Cabinet Secretary for the National Treasury and Economic Planning provides us with the information requested in my Question No.060 (b). I also appreciate the Cabinet Secretary for the National Treasury and Economic Planning for providing a huge document of the projects that were carried out in development in the Financial Year 2022/2023. Again, I want to give some counsel to the Cabinet Secretary that a better presentation of this information would help us to do our oversight better. I had requested specifically that the information be arranged in such a way that we are able to find out how many development projects happened in Isiolo, Kakamega, Mombasa and Murang’a counties. The information you have given is good, but one has to dig in and do a lot more. In your view, it will take months for your officers to do this. In my view, you do not need your officers to do this. All you need to do is develop a template, send it to the ministries and they will give you that information within two weeks."
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