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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Kimani Kuria (Molo, UDA)",
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    "content": "Thank you, Hon. Speaker. Misinformation starts with errors; disinformation starts with agenda. When I looked at what the media reported on this particular Bill, I could tell for a fact that there is an agenda they were trying to pursue. This Bill is giving more power and authority to the Office of the Auditor-General. For example, the function of auditing human resource was not expressly provided for in the law. Therefore, these particular proposals are giving more power and influence to the Office of the Auditor-General. On the issue of disinformation, last week we held a meeting with the Controller of Budget on the issue of manual and automatic payments. I was surprised to see the headline of the Sunday Nation the following day. I wondered if they were reporting on the same meeting I chaired. The way, that particular discussion was interpreted like the National Treasury went to the Central Bank of Kenya and withdrew Ksh1.33 trillion in cash. That is what the disinformation was meant to inform Kenyans. What that really meant is that the National Treasury for a very long time would process payments manually. There will be a lot of paperwork that the principal secretary had to sign and take to the Controller of Budget manually for approvals. What the National Treasury has done is to move from manual to automatic approval of transactions. However, because debt payments are extremely many and there are payments that are made every time, some of these processes have not fully migrated into automation. What we should be doing is congratulating the Principal Secretary and the Cabinet Secretary for the National Treasury and Economic Planning for moving from the manual systems to the automatic systems and encouraging them that all those payments should be onboarded to the automatic system. The disinformation is an agenda and we must call them out."
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