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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. (Dr.) Khalwale",
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        "legal_name": "Bonny Khalwale",
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    "content": "Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I have heard you and my colleagues. I want to confirm to you that even before you raised the issue, I shared the same concerns with you. So far, I have confronted the Auditor-General. I was completely shocked when he told me that the reports are ready. He said that he would send them directly to county assemblies and the National Assembly and that they would be copied to the Senate. A red light flashed in my mind and I told him that, “Mr. Auditor-General, please, go and look at the provisions of the Constitution. When it comes to the laying of papers, Reports do not come to the Senate by way of being copied to but as being primarily laid in the Senate together with the National Assembly.” Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I want to talk about the issue of the balance of the accounts that we did not table here. If Members were paying attention, they would have heard – from some of the documents that I have tabled – that the documents have referred to “16 months preceding 30th June, 2014”. My assumption is that it is 16 months because it includes the four months of the first year of devolution which started about March. That will be in the details. However, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, going forward, I want to confirm to the House that I will not wait until the end of the week. Having tabled these documents, I will go directly to the Office of the Auditor-General tomorrow morning. Thereafter, I will provide an on-the-spot answer tomorrow afternoon about the status of tabling of the balance of the documents. The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposes only. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate."
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