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    "id": 481515,
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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Billow",
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        "legal_name": "Billow Adan Kerrow",
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    "content": "Mr. Speaker, Sir, I also support this Motion, which I believe is long overdue. We should have dealt with the governors from day one when they said that they did not want to honour the summons. Mr. Speaker, Sir, I just want to point out two things. Under Article 225 and Section 96 of the Public Finance Management Act, it is very clear that if there is material or persistent breach of financial regulations, the Cabinet Secretary has powers. This is what we want to invoke. We urge the Treasury to take interest in what is going on in the counties, because the law still gives a lot of powers to Treasury in terms of taking this kind of action, even without prompting from the Senate. They have a mandate, after seeing the reports from the Auditor-General, to take action and stop funds transfer. It is only the Senate that will come in, under Article 96, to appeal for the particular counties. Mr. Speaker, Sir, I want to also point out that the action that we are going to take should be up to and until we are satisfied that those counties have given the relevant explanations regarding the audit queries that are raised. To the extent that they do not do so, it will be a mistake to allow those counties to continue, because we did not create devolution so that we can export the same inefficiency and mismanagement that we see in the national Government to the counties. We want a difference and action. One of the reasons the national Government has suffered for the last 50 years is because there is no action, in spite of all the reports by the Auditor-General. We want a change, so that if the Auditor General says this, we take action. Mr. Speaker, Sir, I beg to support."
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