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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Wetangula",
    "speaker_title": "The Senate Minority Leader",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Moses Masika Wetangula",
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    "content": " Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, the same one you quoted to me a few minutes ago. As I was saying, this Bill gives authority to the office of the Auditor-General to give assurance on the effectiveness of the internal controls, risk management and overall governance in state organs and public entities to confirm whether or not public money has been applied lawfully; to satisfy himself or herself that public money has been used and applied for purposes intended. This is very good discourse in law. It goes on to say; all reasonable precautions have been taken to safeguard the collection of revenue and the acquisition, receipt issuance and proper use of assets and liabilities. One of the biggest problems we are having with public audit in this country is the weakness of the office of the Auditor-General, not because the persons are unqualified, but it is underfunded. It has little capacity to audit a monstrous organization such as the state of our country, where at every twist and turn, what you see is corruption. We need a very strong office of the Auditor-General, not only to carry out post-mortem on frauds and thefts, but to help track the expenditure of budgets. Our side will be bringing some amendments at the Committee Stage to strengthen the Bill, the law that will come out of it and the office of the Auditor-General to enhance their independence, capacity and make it possible for the office of the Auditor-General as we describe in this Bill to sniff everywhere and detect with clear early warning mechanisms on how public spending is carried out. Every other day, you see the obscenity going on in the counties. We have devolved funds. We have actually devolved corruption. We are sending funds to devolved units and greedy fellows are busy sharing the money. Three years down the line, the Auditor-General will come up with a report. By that time, some of the fellows would have been voted out of the office, others will be dead and then they will tell us in this county, Kshs2 billion was stolen. A sum of Kshs3 billion cannot be accounted for in this department or so much money cannot be accounted for in this Ministry. If there was proper tracking of Government procurement, contracts and spending, this country would never have had Goldenberg, Anglo Leasing scams and all the issues that we keep on hearing about every day and night. For the benefit of my distinguished young colleague across the Floor, the matter of procurement of the Eldoret Hospital is not in the newspapers, but it is before the Public Investment Committee (PIC) of this Parliament. That is my source of information it is not the newspapers. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, the Auditor-General’s office---"
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