{"id":3581,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/3581/?format=json","text_counter":426,"type":"speech","speaker_name":"Dr. Khalwale","speaker_title":"","speaker":{"id":170,"legal_name":"Bonny Khalwale","slug":"bonny-khalwale"},"content":"Thank you, Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir. Hon. Kimunya, I thank you for that reiteration. You have simply reiterated what I said, that the US$25 million was simply a deposit of the US$51 million that Thomas De La Rue won when they went for the international tender. He is also right in saying that I should have audited those accounts. However, my frustration is this; when I attempted to interrogate the accounts of the Central Bank of Kenya, through a letter written by the Clerk of the National Assembly that a special audit be done on this thing, I got a letter of rejection that Parliament had no power to audit Central Bank of Kenya, and the Minster knows it. I tabled that letter here. So, I am frustrated in the sense that many years from now, I might be accused of having connived with these people while I was the Chairman of the Public Accounts Committee. I am laying it on the Table and he will do us a great deal if he went and told the Cabinet to allow Parliament to interrogate the Central Bank of Kenya."}