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    "speaker_name": "Hon. A.B. Duale",
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        "legal_name": "Aden Bare Duale",
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    "content": "What is procedural? Is it how I move? Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairman, I beg to move:- THAT, Clause 19 (2) of the Bill be amended by:- (a) inserting the words “review and” immediately after the words “year for”; and (b) deleting the words “with the Cabinet Secretary’s comments” Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairman, if you allow me--- I am even happy that a member of the Parliamentary Service Commission, Hon. Keynan, has just walked in. I want Hon. Gumbo to listen to me. The Parliamentary Service Commission is answerable to the Salaries and Remuneration Commission (SRC). What we are saying is that under Article 234(5), the Auditor- General’s independence and powers cannot be absolute. He must act within the confines of the provision of Article 234(5) of the Constitution. What does it say? He borrows the expertise of the Public Service Commission (PSC) in recruiting staff. I was a Member in the last Parliament when we were forming the Office of the Auditor- General. There is nowhere we gave the Auditor-General a blank cheque to go and recruit staff the way he wants. Both the national and county governments recruit staff using the procedures provided by PSC. Where an entity is independent, then the fall-back is the provision of Article 234(5) of the Constitution. Some of us are not lawyers, but we read the law. So, Clause 19 is very clear. The Cabinet Secretary (CS) is the custodian of regulations and the budget. Parliament and, more so, the National Assembly, has the powers to do a review. If the members of the Budget and Appropriations Committee - and the Chairperson is here – feel that independent institutions are not being given enough resources, then it will review what the CS for the National Treasury has presented. This year, the CS gave them more resources. So, this is very clear."
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