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    "content": "The second point I want the Members of the Committee to interrogate is on page 12 (8) where the executive committee is trying to give an excuse that the reason why they slashed the budget of the county assembly by over a half a billion was because the car grants and mortgage that was meant to go to Members of the County Assemblies was disallowed. That sounds prudent, bur refer them back to the law. What does the law say? The law says that you cannot amend the budget of the county assembly even if you are the governor. The PMF Act says that the only person who makes the budget is the Accounting Officer of the County Assembly and that person is called the Clerk and not the governor. So we are allowing impunity to go on by excusing them when they say they were doing the right thing to remove that money because the cars had been disallowed. The third point is on page 12. It says: “The investigation team established that the approved budget was not published nor publicized as required by the law”. This is contrary to the Public Finance Management Act which provides that this kind of information must be made public through publication. So, if we do not interrogate the Governor, he will be sitting--- Sen. G.G. Kariuki reminded me when we were seated there that if we do not stamp our foot--- We are lucky we had a good Speaker in Turkana who complained, but supposing he was a corrupt man, he would have colluded with the Governor and they would have shared these billions of shillings and nobody would have known. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I want to hold brief for my colleague, distinguished Senator for Turkana, Sen. Munyes. Possibly what has happened in that county---"
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