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    "id": 535121,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Ng’ongo",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "John Mbadi Ng'ong'o",
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    "content": "Your guidance has been sought on this and I am sure this House has a responsibility to oversee and debate this Report. Where I disagree with hon. Duale and hon. Abdikadir is on which committee is responsible. My understanding is that the Controller of Budget is answerable to the Budget and Appropriations Committee and not the Departmental Committee on Finance, Planning and Trade. Even the vetting of the Controller of Budget was done by the Budget and Appropriations Committee. The Auditor-General (AG) is answerable to the Departmental Committee on Finance, Planning and Trade but when it comes to the Controller of Budget, my understanding is that it can be interpreted otherwise, because both are committees of the House. Whichever committee you find most appropriate, I will be okay. However, I thought these are matters of looking at Budget absorption, which require the attention of the Budget and Appropriations Committee. Even in the last Parliament, we had a committee of Parliament through an Act of Parliament. As the Budget and Appropriations Committee then, we used to debate and consider quarterly reports from the Treasury then. That was before the Controller of Budget came. We used to consider the absorption of Government expenditure and report to Parliament as the Budget and Appropriations Committee then. The same needs to be done today. If we have been sleeping on the job, we need to accept it, start waking up and doing the right thing."
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