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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Cheruiyot",
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        "legal_name": "Aaron Kipkirui Cheruiyot",
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    "content": "Mr. Speaker, Sir, I will be extremely brief. The point I want to make is that the issue of why the backlog in terms of the years is a matter that we have canvassed before. I am a Member of the Committee on Finance and Budget and I was a Member of the Committee on Finance, Commerce and Budget in the previous Parliament. In one of our reports that we brought to this House alongside the County Allocation of Revenue Bill, we had made recommendations to the Office of the Auditor- General. He should consider requesting for funding from the Treasury to hire auditing services to counties so that they catch up with the years because of the huge amount of work that is being done and lack of resources in that Office. The Office of the Auditor-General complied with that report and this year they made that request. Unfortunately, the Treasury did not grant it. So, the culprit here is not the CPAIC or the Office of the Auditor-General but the Treasury which continues to underfund the Office of the Auditor-General despite the numerous requests that have been made for us to catch up; and Members of the Committee can bear me witness. What report will they bring to this House if the Auditor-General has not looked into the audit reports of 2015/2016, 2016/2017 and subsequent financial years? It is important under Article 225 of our Constitution to consider what we can do as a legislature to compel the Treasury to comply with the report of our Committee on Finance and Budget that made that very specific request for funding. It is unfortunate that even today the Office of the Auditor-General has not complied with that. They do not have representation in county offices. Instead they are managed from regional centres like what you would have for rift valley in Nakuru and that kind of arrangement. It is a matter that we need to seriously think through and consider. I thank you."
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