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    "id": 583482,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/583482/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. (Prof.) Nyong’o",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 193,
        "legal_name": "Peter Anyang' Nyong'o",
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    "content": "Mr. Speaker, Sir, I want to raise a much wider issue, regarding what we are doing in the Committee on Finance, Commerce and Budget and the County Public Accounts and Investments Committee (CPAIC). The English saying that “seeing is believing” is very important. When we are doing oversight, we cannot just stick to reports from the Auditor-General as the only way of doing oversight. Quite often, issues are raised as to what extent what is reported on paper is true. I will give you an example; in many counties, there is a controversy over construction of roads. County governments claim that they construct the roads, Constituencies Development Fund (CDF) say that they construct the roads and so on. I do not know what the Auditor- General sometimes audits. The same road apparently was constructed by two sources of funds from the Government. The only body that can allay the fears of the public to double-auditing or double- claim is the Senate. Therefore, I would like us to spend much more time on discussing the oversight role of the Senate and the means to do oversight. It is something that is being fudged over but in the final analysis, this nation will hold us culpable for not having risen up and asserted this role so that it is financed properly so that we can stop the financial haemorrhage in the counties."
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