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    "id": 622794,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Kangara",
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        "legal_name": "Benson Mutura Kangara",
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    "content": "serious. This is an independent office whose tenure of office is guaranteed. The holder does not need any favour and must act authoritatively. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, the national Government and county governments should be taking their draft Budgets to the Office of the Controller of Budget. What happens if the Cabinet Secretary for the National Treasury or the County Executive Officer responsible for finance in a county does not take their Budget proposals to the Controller of Budget? This Bill is short of giving the input, mechanism and punishment in tandem with such omissions. We need to follow up the embargo. Who gives approval to the National Treasury to issue funds to the counties? It should be clearly stated in this Bill that the Controller of Budget should be the one to enforce embargo on counties. Currently, the situation is chaotic. All the counties have overspent. They dish tenders left, right and centre. The governors have overcommitted the counties. Who will pay back the money? We should be serious about protecting public finances. Some county governments are in debts of billions of shillings simply because the Office of the Controller of Budget has not been effective in terms of enforcing spending ceilings for county governments. Some counties are in the process of acquiring big loans running into billions of shillings. Others have violated that provision yet they have money. What sureties are there that such loans will be paid by the current county government regimes or the regimes that will follow? We, therefore, need to be very serious. The Controller of Budget needs to be serious as well. Despite giving guidelines on punishment to officers who neglect their duties, equally, there must be mechanisms of punishing the Controller of Budget for not doing what they are expected to do. As I stated earlier, I will be moving substantive amendments, so that we can have a comprehensive and effective office."
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