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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Murkomen",
    "speaker_title": "The Senate Majority Leader",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Onesimus Kipchumba Murkomen",
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    "content": " Mr. Speaker, Sir, I rise to support the position on the question raised by Sen. Sakaja and Sen. Wetangula. We need to find a solution. This is an embarrassment to the institution of the Senate and the Auditor General. As a Senate, some of us who were here during the last term should take responsibility and blame because the County Public Accounts and Investments Committee (CPAIC) should have expedited this process of looking at the audited accounts. We also know that some of the reports have not been submitted from the Auditor General’s office. Mr. Speaker, Sir, I request, under your direction, that the CPAIC invites the Auditor General, we have a sitting here with him to discuss this matter, in the presence of all Senators. The Committee may invite him on their own. In the past, we have had sessions where a Cabinet Secretary is invited to come to this House. We need to agree how expeditiously we can ensure that all the reports which are already in Parliament can be looked at by the Senate. In fact, we can even take a drastic measure if we want to clear the backlog. We have reports of 2013/2014, 2014/2015 and 2015/2016. There is nothing that stops us under the Standing Orders. We can agree that as the Senate, we subdivide ourselves into ad hoc Committees to look at all the audited accounts, update them up to the last financial year, and then, we can let the CPAIC to continue from there. At that point in time, we summon all the governors as each ad hoc Committee sits in a separate room and looks at all these reports and updates. As Sen. Sakaja has said, we may not in our life time of the 12th Parliament, ever see what our counties look like if we continue with this process in this manner."
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