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    "id": 645684,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/645684/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Elachi",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 13115,
        "legal_name": "Beatrice Elachi",
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    "content": "Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, it is very important to understand the expenditures. We need to interrogate office rent, for instance. In 2013/2014 they spent Kshs41 million. What happened in 2014/2015? They went overboard to spend a whooping Kshs134 million. They spent this on office rent in Nairobi yet we passed a Motion the other day that we have county governments that do not have offices in their counties. We are looking for money to build those offices. This is double expenditure considering that they also have offices in Nairobi. We need to curb this. In addition, there is expenditure on fuel and lubricants. Is this for the staff or do governors spend money for fuel in the counties then, again when they come to their Nairobi offices, they claim mileage allowances? We need to look into this. Lastly, concerning capacity building; the Committee on Finance, Commerce and Budget has questioned it and asked the National Treasury to take action. It is time we stopped this. Regarding consultancy fees; despite having staff and the so called public economic officers and advisors, they have spent Kshs8 million on consultancy fees. We need to interrogate whether this office was created to use the backdoor to have a county government office in Nairobi rather than having them in the 47 counties."
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