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    "id": 1527736,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Mariam Omar",
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    "content": "commissions and that showed that the Senate is fighting for its space and that the budget is for the two Houses and not the National Assembly only. I was in the Committee listening to the stakeholders and what came to my attention were the oversight agencies - the Controller of Budget and the office of the Auditor-General. Most of their work is travel and expenses and their work is to go through all the documents of counties and the national Government and because of their travel expenses, their budget was cut. In that scenario, we will need the expenditure of the Auditor-General not to be touched because there is the key mandate of auditors. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, the Controller of Budget had put their budget at Kshs50 million for automation, but this has not been funded. As a Committee we requested for the Controller of Budget offices to be mandatorily automated so that they can link with the Ministry of National Treasury and Economic Planning and the Central Bank of Kenya. This kind of a link needs automation and is required so that when it comes to exchequer transactions and approvals, it will not take time. That is what the Auditor-General concluded. The allocation of recurrent expenditure is under the Public Finance Management (PFM). In 2025, the projection is 79,123 from the proposals in the budget. The continuation in the increase in the debts service will also take a huge part of the budget which will be expected to be utilized as development budget. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, the county government's debt to Kenya Power amounted to Kshs4.3 billion as of November, 2024. Last week, there was a conflict between the county government and the Kenya Power. When I researched this conflict, I realised that Kenya Power is mistreating counties because it is a monopoly. Kenya Power should not be a monopoly. Energy and lighting are essential to our people. This is a fundamental right of each and every citizen. With those few remarks, I support the report. Thank you."
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