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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Billow",
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    "content": "Mr. Speaker, Sir, I have heard your statement on that. However, I want to clarify a couple of issues on Statements and Petitions before our Committee because the Member mentioned that many of them are with the Committee on Finance, Commerce and Budget. He mentioned the two issues of El Nino and interest rates as the questions he had sought. The question on El Nino was discussed in this House and I presented the response. It may not have been satisfactory, but I presented it. The argument by the National Treasury was that money has been disbursed to Ministries to spend on El Nino . Regarding the issue of interest rates, we have given many Statements that had been sought. To the best of our knowledge, the tracker that has been given and which we discussed last week in our Committee shows that we do not have any pending Statements, except the one by Sen. Ndiema on the counties whose money is in the collapsed banks. I will deliver it today as directed by you. Mr. Speaker, Sir, the Committee on Finance, Commerce and Budget only has four Petitions left. One of them is from a Member of County Assembly (MCA) from Busia County regarding a ward. We agreed to visit that ward early next year to see some of the issues that they raised. Because of the nature and complexity of the Petition from Bungoma that the Senator is party to, it had to drag because there are many issues, including huge amounts of money that they were not able to account for. They have been given time to produce evidence. The issue of Vihiga County is a court case. The Governor of Vihiga has refused to honour the summons for two months in a row and the matter has gone to court. In fact, this morning, we were briefed by the Legal Department that the matter is still in court. Therefore, we are not able to execute that petition. That leaves us with only one from the 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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