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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. A.B. Duale",
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        "legal_name": "Aden Bare Duale",
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    "content": "(6) Every four months, the Controller shall submit to each House of Parliament, a report on the implementation of the budgets of the national and county governments.” In the last two years, I have done this and this is in line with the Constitution and the Public Finance Management (PFM) Act, 2012. This House has, in my opinion, become a conveyor belt that does not scrutinise documents which are tabled before it. If you look at the one I have tabled today, it has very critical information on the locally collected revenue by every county, its expenditure, funds released or transferred from the Consolidated Fund of the national Government to counties and a county by county expenditure analysis. Hon. Speaker, the one that I tabled four months ago--- Hon. Members will agree with me that when some of us made an inquiry to the Controller of Budget (CoB), that officer confirmed that the information we sought was not provided. We want Parliament, as an oversight authority, to deal with matters of expenditure for both the national and the county governments before they end up in the Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission (EACC). So, hon. Speaker, I need your guidance and ask why the Departmental Committee on Finance, Planning and Trade has not produced a report on every county. When these documents are tabled, there is a committee that is supposed to relook at them, invite the Controller of Budget as stipulated in the Constitution and ask for all the information provided in this document and verify it. This is just like what the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) does with the accounts of the national Government. It is the same thing with the Budget and Appropriations Committee. I want your guidance on the way forward because the Departmental Committee on Finance, Planning and Trade is under obligation to study these documents and avail Members the opportunity to debate them. If it is about Homa Bay, Garissa or Mandera County, for example, an hon. Member or the Controller of Budget can appear before the Committee and help to analyse the documents which are tabled. So, I want your guidance on the way forward over critical documents which are just tabled and taken nowhere. That is my concern. Based on Article 228 of the Constitution, Parliament should not act in vain while people are complaining about wastage in the county governments. These are the documents which should be analysed by this House and its relevant committees and a The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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