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    "id": 283775,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Githae",
    "speaker_title": "The Minister for Finance",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Robinson Njeru Githae",
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    "content": " Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, beginning with the last question by the Member for Lari, it is not our intention to have the accounts qualified. In fact, to the contrary we would like the accounts not to be qualified by the Auditor-General. Coming to the other issue raised by Mr. Ogindo, the funds that are to be remitted to the county governments will be based on the last year’s audited accounts for every year. That is what the Constitution says. Those are the figures that have been used by the Treasury and the Commission on Revenue Allocation (CRA). Coming to the other issues that were raised, as I said these accounts are reconciled on a daily basis. I have a schedule here which I would like to share with Mr. Mbadi. It shows that for every account you would have what was estimated, the actual receipt and the amount paid to the Exchequer, as per the revenue statement, and then the actual receipts in the Exchequer Account. You will find that in any given day there will always be differences. Even for reporting purposes, if you close your books today and the other institution accepts the figure from the following day, there will be a difference. I would like to share this list with Mr. Mbadi. As I said, we have absolutely nothing to hide. He can actually see even the causes for the differences. Sometimes payment is made directly by the collector of revenue. Sometimes some loanees pay directly. If dividend income is declared it may not be received until sometime later. Therefore, these differences will always be there."
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