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    "id": 650696,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. M. Kajwang",
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        "legal_name": "Moses Otieno Kajwang'",
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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, we will call them Okonyo Senate. It means that the Senate has been helped. Just to wind up, if you do not maintain a revenue cash book, it means you do not know how much you are collecting. We send money to counties from national collections and they collect money from the market women; people who have already paid Value Added Tax (VAT) on whatever products that they are paying, yet we cannot account for it. The Committee has made certain recommendations and given the county some timelines to put some of these things in place. However, I wish that this House notes and takes it very seriously that on the project of hatcheries and solar lamps in Homa Bay County, this House must get a report from the Auditor-General. The Committee has recommended that the Auditor-General conducts a value for money audit. I had reservations about the timeframe that has been given because they informed the Committee that it be done within one year. In my view, one year is too long. In my view, one year is too long, but when the committee explained to me the constraints that the Auditor-General is operating within, I grudgingly accepted and I will not be moving an amendment. I would have wished to amend that these matters be looked at within a span of three months so that we do not go into the next elections without knowing whether these projects were properly done. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I would also request your guidance and your interpretation. If you look at this report, the notice of Motion was issued earlier in November, 2015. Some of the recommendations here are in the past. There are recommendations for 31st December, 2015. I beg your guidance on this because my understanding is that despite these dates being in the past, the Committee on Implementation will start tracking from the date on which this report was adopted. Therefore, it will not be necessary for us to go through the report and amend the effective dates because it is easy for the county government to say that the dates have passed and we forget. Secondly Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I want to call upon this House to impress upon the CPAIC to quickly consider the reports that come before it. We are looking at accounts of 2013/2014 Financial Year and we are already in 2016. By the time we go for elections, most likely we will have only looked at accounts for two years yet we know it is in the third and fourth years that some of these corruption scandals will come up. We will go into elections without having subjected the current executives to the test that PAIC and this Senate is supposed to subject it to. In fact, Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I want to recommend something radical that we come up with some standards of service for some of our critical committees and we give them timelines by which reports that come to them must have been considered. I say so because there is already a clear failure by the county assemblies. Ideally, the law says that this report of the Auditor-General shall go to the Senate and a copy shall also go to the county assembly. From my own county assembly, there is no information or update to know whether the county assembly has considered this Report. That means Senate is on 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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