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    "id": 476656,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/476656/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Mulu",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 1955,
        "legal_name": "Benson Makali Mulu",
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    "content": "The last point relates to the adherence of the Constitution. You must have realized that for the last two days, it has been reported that some counties have submitted their budgets to the Controller of Budget and the Controller of Budget has rejected them. The Constitution is very clear that the Controller of Budget has no mandate or role in approving budgets. She has a role of only approving withdrawals from the approved budgets. The work of approving budgets is the work of the county assemblies and the National Assembly, possibly in consultation with the Senate. On that note, I see a situation where this office is over-stepping its mandate. If we do not control this, we will be trending on a very dangerous ground. It is important that this particular office strictly adheres to its responsibilities as clearly stipulated in the Constitution. If we do not do that, we are going to render our county assemblies useless in terms of the budget making process. I am sure even this National Assembly will not allow anybody to change budgets after we have approved them. I do not want us to have a situation where we are defending our tuff and then we allow the county assemblies not to defend their tuff. I would strictly recommend that the work of approving budgets is the work of the county assemblies. They might have no capacity, but this does not mean that we should take their work. We need to build their capacity, so that they can approve their budgets. Based on these comments, we will need to support this report, so that money flows to the counties. However, in future, in terms of the budget making process, it is important that we observe and make use of these lessons that we have learnt."
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