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    "id": 832340,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kimilili, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Didmus Barasa",
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        "legal_name": "Didmus Wekesa Barasa Mutua",
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    "content": "lot of money which could be used to transform the lives of the Kenyan people by improving healthcare, a completely devolved function. Even as we commend this Committee, we also want to suggest improvement in future. There is no point in money being given to a particular entity, which spends it and then you come up with a report after two or three years. Once a particular entity is given money, before it is allocated more money in next financial year, there should be efforts to establish how the previous allocation had been spent. During our interrogation of the Budget, such audit queries should inform this House on whether to approve more money for such individual activities or reduce it. There is no point in continuing to fund an activity in a State agency when previous allocations to that activity were misappropriated. It is very important that this House does not become a conveyor belt that just rubberstamps and approves budgetary allocation. Audit reports for preceding financial years must also inform our decision in terms of approving budgetary allocations, going forward. This House has been vetting various Kenyans for public appointments and such reports are very important. The name of a person who has been heading an institution that has several audit queries should not be brought to this House for vetting, if at all we want to assist this country. I echo the sentiments of our colleagues who have said that other Committees should also move with speed and try to table reports in this House to show our commitment in executing our mandate as properly anchored in the Constitution. I sum up by saying that we appreciate this Committee. I hope they are also going to move into other sectors of Government to be able to give us a report. As much as we appreciate the Chairman, he is a very close friend of the Member for Bumula, who is a bishop. This also confirms that when you walk with a bishop you become a straightforward person. Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker."
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