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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. (Prof.) Anyang’-Nyong’o",
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        "legal_name": "Peter Anyang' Nyong'o",
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    "content": "Thank you very much, Mr. Speaker, Sir, for giving me the opportunity to speak and for your communication from the Chair. I want to raise two issues which you could help us clarify. One, it is true that the Auditor-General has made statement before us, as a Committee and also in the Committee on Finance, Commerce and Budget, chaired by Sen. Billow indicating that his office is underfunded. I do not think that is enough. Sen. (Dr.) Khalwale has requested you to state what you are going to do about it. However, I am not quite sure whether it is you who should be the prime mover of raising issues regarding the under financing of the Auditor-General’s office or any other office of statutory nature dealing with finances. The issue is; can you give us direction - given that the Auditor-General has complained, and, indeed, the subject of his complaint is borne by the delay of these accounts - can you give us a direction on how to pursue this matter? How exactly should we, from now on, move to ensure that that office gets enough funding to do its work? Both the Committee on Finance, Commerce and Budget and our Committee is suffering from the fact that the Auditor-General is not fully funded. Therefore, he does not have the institutional capacity to carry out his work. That is the first question. The second question puzzles me, and, maybe, this is the root of the matter. I am not quite sure whether the reports we are looking for are not already in the National Assembly, because Article 229(7) of the Constitution. It says: “Audit reports shall be submitted to Parliament or the relevant county assembly.” The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposes only. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate."
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