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    "content": "Madam Temporary, Speaker, this Bill further says that the Senior Deputy Auditor-General in the Office of the Auditor-General shall be the secretary of the Audit Advisory Board. This is absurd. It should be the Auditor-General himself. How would you bring somebody junior from somewhere to become the secretary, yet the board has been established with seven members? In this Bill, I have not seen how the chairperson will be identified, unless I have completed reading it. It is not indicated how the chairperson will be identified in the meetings that they will have at least four times a year. Madam Temporary, Speaker, it is essential that this Bill be cleaned and we operationalize it as soon as it is passed, so that most of the malpractices that we see are checked. It may be important for Members to hear that the Committee on Finance, Commerce and Budget visited Kiambu County where we found drama that I have never heard of in other counties. In Kiambu County, everything is taxed except air. Even an egg is taxable there. How do you even count how many eggs have been released per day? It is very strange. We do not know how they are doing it. Milk is taxed at the door of the milking parlor. Counties were supposed to enable the people to develop but not to milk them to the extent that they run out of business completely. The people of Kiambu County depend on businesses. Some of them are small scale farmers but their major source of income is trading. What role are the national Treasury, the Auditor-General and all the other organs supposed to play? Why are they allowing new units that have been released to become tax collectors? We sometimes wonder whether that money is audited. It may be of interest for us to know whether the money collected in the counties is audited or it is only the money released by the national Government. Article 96(3) of the Constitution says:- “The Senate determines the allocation of national revenue among counties, as provided in Article 217, and exercises oversight over national revenue allocated to the county governments.” Is this the money that the Auditor-General audits or he also audits the money that I have just talked about that is taxed, including eggs? If that is the case, we must then be able to see a completely new look in some of these counties all together. However, the scenario in some counties is that, the people who were employed in 2013 have changed bodies---"
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