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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Billow",
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        "legal_name": "Billow Adan Kerrow",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir, for that useful statement. I will mention two things. One is the reality that corruption is significantly gaining ground in the counties. There is no doubt about that. There is a lot of concern that literally, in every county, there is massive corruption that is being reported by Members of County Assemblies, by the media, in the Auditor-General’s Reports, the Controller of Budget Reports and many other reports. We had a meeting with the Auditor-General regarding this matter. The Auditor- General expressed, clearly, that he does not have sufficient resources to carry out this exercise. Why is this? This is because when he was dealing with the national Government, he had a budget of Kshs2.5 billion. When we added the 47 new governments, he got an extra Kshs100 million and his budget became Kshs2.6 billion. In the second year, he got another Kshs100 million. Therefore, in the Budget Policy that was approved here last week, we emphasized and recommended that the Government must increase more resources to the Auditor-General so that he can carry out his work effectively. Yesterday, the National Assembly passed the policy statement. I do not know how much money they have allocated. However, I will be meeting hon. Mutava Musyimi to discuss exactly how much they gave. He promised that they would allocate more money to the Auditor-General in the Budget. I agree with what Sen. Kagwe said. This is a matter that, in fact, we need to engage the President on. The Budget should get to His Excellency the President because there is concern about inadequate resources. With regard to Senators in the Budget Policy Statement that was discussed and adopted yesterday, there was---"
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