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    "id": 722094,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. (Eng.) Muriuki",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Stephen Muriuki Ngare",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir, for giving me this opportunity to support this Motion. I had the opportunity to serve in this Committee under the Chairmanship of Sen. (Prof.) Anyang-Nyong’o and Sen. (Dr.) Khalwale. The teams which have been in this Committee have worked very hard against all odds. They started with enormous amounts of work which had to be covered within a short period. Sen. Khaniri and Sen. Mong’are who have left this Committee made a wonderful contribution during the work of the Committee. Sen. Mong’are is a lawyer and Sen. Khaniri is a longstanding legislator. He would quote various experiences and pieces of law. However, this Committee faced frustrations in discharging its duties. One of the frustrations, which has nothing to do with this House, is the Office of the Auditor- General. I do not think that the Auditor General is the person occupying the office per se. You will notice that until now we are dealing with the accounts of the first substantial year 2013/2014. The accounts of 2014/2015 came late last year and the Committee has not even tackled them. The work of this Committee is cardinal to the mandate of this House under Article 96 of the Constitution. We are now coming to the end of the fourth year, yet we have looked at the accounts of only the first year and a little bit on the second year. Kenyans will wonder what happened to the remainder of the years. Since this House is mandated to oversight the funds going to the counties, it will appear as if we are not able to do our work. At one time we were in a conference where the Auditor-General was represented by his deputy. They indicated that the budget they had asked for that year was Kshs12 billion. They were eventually given only Kshs3 billion; a quarter of what they asked for. Eventually, after a lot of negotiations through the normal process, the figure rose to Kshs5 billion. At the end of the year only Kshs4 billion was disbursed. That means that the frustration that this House is facing, through this Committee, with regard to allocation 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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