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    "id": 423626,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Billow",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Billow Adan Kerrow",
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    "content": "Mr. Speaker, Sir, on the question raised, the traditional practice for the House is that a report has to be tabled on the Floor of the House. That is when it is properly before the House and Members can be seized of it and can debate it. That was not intended to gag Members. The idea is so that Members are actually speaking from a point of information and based on a report that is before the House because you can be challenged that, the report has not even gone to Parliament. Mr. Speaker, Sir, we have discussed the question of Article 229(8), in the Committee and our decision is that at the level of the Senate, we will examine the accounts of a sample of the counties. We are working with the Auditor-General in terms of determining which particular counties have serious issues. Those are the ones that we intend to focus on. Definitely our report will be before the House very soon, so that we will be within that constitutional deadline. But it is within the mandate of each county assembly to actually discuss in detail. We were advised yesterday by the Auditor-General that no county assembly has so far tabled any of those reports in the House before their committees. This is why we raised this statement that they have a responsibility to raise it. We would request the Senators to urge their respective assemblies to have these reports placed before the respective committees of the House and deliberated upon."
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