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    "content": "come to the Committee, surely, does it mean that, constitutionally, we have no authority to summon somebody just to ask them about expenditure of public funds? Secondly, regarding pending bills, it is not enough to say that a Committee sat in Meru and came up with a certain figure. Auditors are supposed to audit public funds. If this House has to be effective in seeing that the resources of this country are applied in the right way, it has to begin with planning and budgeting. I would have wished that we engage on this subject with the Auditor General and the National Treasury to see where we come in. we do not want to be post mortem people. We will just be crying that; “oh, you have done well, you have reduced pending bills from the previous difference of Kshs20 billion to Kshs4 billion”, which is serious theft! That does not help. Therefore, we need to agree on what our role is and how this Committee, which looks toothless, conducts its oversight role."
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