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    "id": 429115,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Aden",
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        "legal_name": "Aden Bare Duale",
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    "content": "Hon. Deputy Speaker, the Senate has the authority to do oversight and it is their job, as mandated by the Constitution, to ensure that they work for the success of each of our counties. That will entail offering strict oversight on each and every governor and the county governments in the respective counties. Hon. Deputy Speaker, I want to say that our Auditor-General also needs to work more efficiently and harder so that we can approve the budget and the audited accounts. That is because, time and again, the governors are making excuses that Parliament is using very old budgets to appropriate or to do the division of revenue. We only have to do what has to be done under Article 203 of the Constitution. We can only use the last audited accounts. Therefore, it is the responsibility of the Auditor-General to fast-track and work more quickly and efficiently so that this House is able to approve those budgets faster in order to use the preceding year’s budget, if possible, for us to share that revenue. As I conclude, I would like to say that I am greatly encouraged to see that this House is standing to the challenges to support devolution. This House is now challenging county governments and saying: “You have asked for more funds. Here are more funds. We now want to see real development and not just recurrent expenditure in each of our counties.” Thank you, hon. Deputy Speaker."
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