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    "id": 510325,
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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Ababu",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 108,
        "legal_name": "Ababu Tawfiq Pius Namwamba",
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    "content": "Thank you, hon. Speaker. Let me just put it on record that as at the time when the House rose last evening, I had made considerable progress in moving this Motion. I had given an outline of the three reports. I had indicated to hon. Members that, for ease of reference and debate, the Committee provided executive briefs in each of the three reports, which will make it easy for hon. Members to have a snap preview of the reports, and take note of the big issues noted by the Committee in each of the financial years. I had already put on record the big issues for Financial Years 2010/2011 and 2011/2012. I was in the process of doing the same for the Financial Year 2012/2013. I had indicated a number of big issues highlighted by the Committee in this financial year, and I was explaining one major issue, or the biggest issue in this year, which is a confidential expenditure amounting to Kshs2,853,000,300. Hon. Speaker, I was explaining to the House that the Committee expressed grave concern that the so called confidential expenditure involved huge cash withdrawals with neither explanation nor any logical rationale. The Committee noted that in many instances, multiple withdrawals of up to five times would be made in a single day. For instance on 26th February, 2013 five withdrawals of amounts ranging from Kshs20 million to Kshs30 million each were made for a total sum of Kshs130 million in a single day. Between 4th April, 2013 and 30th June, 2013 the Ministry of Interior and Co-ordination of National Government got cash amounting to Kshs190 million, also drawn in cash. The Committee has provided an extract of those withdrawals and on page (vii) in the executive brief of Financial Year 2012/2013, hon. Members will notice a table which has been extracted from a submission from the Ministry by the Kenya National Audit Office (KENAO). That table, which I invite you to interrogate with a keen eye of a neurosurgeon and, perhaps, the patience of a monk, you will notice the hefty cash withdrawals by this Ministry which could not be explained. I will not go through that table. I will leave it to hon. colleagues to look at it in the process of debating this Motion. The Committee proceeds to say that in the absence of documents to support expenditure of these numerous cash drawings, among others, it is impossible to tell how exactly these funds were utilized and on what purpose. It did not escape the Committee’s attention that transactions were handled by a single officer, Mr. Ben Kihia, a Senior Accountant at the Office of the President (P/No.1987083788)"
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