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    "id": 552521,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/552521/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Langat",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 384,
        "legal_name": "Benjamin Kipkirui Langat",
        "slug": "benjamin-langat"
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    "content": "Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairman, thank you for your guidance. The last time we were voting, I voted very wisely. Clause 19 deals with the budget process for the Auditor-General’s Office. What the Senate is proposing is that the Auditor-General will get the estimates, take it to the National Treasury and the Treasury shall not even check, shall not even do anything with it. The purpose of the National Treasury is just to bring it as a conveyor belt to the National Assembly. It is like the Auditor-General wants to submit directly to the National Assembly. There are only three organs which the Constitution allows to bring directly to the National Assembly. That is the Judicial Service Commission (JSC), the Parliamentary Service Commission (PSC), and the National Treasury. This one seems like they want to short-circuit the Constitution. The fears being expressed, because we had interacted with the Auditor-General, is that the Auditor-General feels he may not be funded properly but those fears are unfounded because Parliament has a lot of say in the allocation of the resources and they are given that power. They are allowed to come and talk to the Budget and Appropriations Committee or even to my Committee. I am requesting---"
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