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    "id": 15402,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Mbadi",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 110,
        "legal_name": "John Mbadi Ng'ong'o",
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    "content": "On a point of order, Mr. Speaker, Sir. On 21st April, 2011, I rose in this House and asked for a Statement from the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Finance. He kept on giving promises that the Statement would be brought. The Statement was on the status of our revenue accounts. Mr. Speaker, Sir, the amounts I questioned were to the tune of over Kshs100 billion which had failed to reconcile with the accounts that had been presented to this House and what the Treasury had reported. I am talking about Kshs104 billion. Up to this stage, this matter has not been addressed. I also want to add that the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) had promised that it would look into this matter. It is the frustration that I got from that Committee which made me make some statement previously about it. Therefore, if the Minister cannot bring this Statement, would it not be necessary that I request you to ask PAC to give us a timeframe within which they can investigate why our accounts have not been certified by the Controller and Auditor-General. The accounts have a number of queries to the extent of portraying this country as not being sure of how much we have been collecting in terms of revenue. This is a very grave matter."
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