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    "speaker_name": "Mr. Mbadi",
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        "legal_name": "John Mbadi Ng'ong'o",
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    "content": "Mr. Speaker, Sir, I am actually surprised by the Statement from the Minister for Finance, where he is implying that this House cannot interrogate issues with regard to the performance of the Executive, if such issues have either been looked at by a Committee or the House or if it is in the process of being looked at. I want to remind the Minister that this PAC Report has actually been adopted by this House. If you look at the PAC Report vis-Ă -vis what I have asked, there is no mention of specifically the issues I have raised. Since this Minister has the information, I do not understand why he finds it difficult to address the issues I asked. Mr. Speaker, Sir, the issues I asked are as follows: - One, I asked the Minister to tell us how many accounts, for example, in the year 2007/2008, were certified and why the others which were not certified, were not certified. But, the issue which I raised that is so fundamental is that this House was given some information with regard to actual revenue collection. That information is completely different from what the Controller and Auditor-General reported as the actual revenue collection that went into the Exchequer account. Mr. Speaker, Sir, I am referring to 2007/20008 Financial Year. In the Exchequer Account, the auditor reported on 4th November, 2008 that the Government collected Kshs516 billion. The following year, that is June, 2009, this same Assistant Minister came before this House and told the whole country that the Government only collected Kshs410 billion; a difference of Kshs105 billion. I simply wanted the Assistant Minister to clarify why the figures that are in the Exchequer account are different from what we were given in this House. I would also like him to tell this country whether the Ministry mislead Parliament into approving figures that are not accurate to the tune of Kshs105 billion. It was that simple and there is no need to pass this to the Public Accounts Committee (PAC). That issue was not addressed by the Public Accounts Committee. I, as hon. Member of Parliament, should be giving authority to the Executive to tax the people of Kenya and I believe it is within my mandate and responsibility to question why the Government is giving us two contrasting figures for the same Vote Head."
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