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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Sakaja",
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        "legal_name": "Johnson Arthur Sakaja",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir. Allow me to quickly commend the Chairperson of the Committee on County Public Accounts and Investments. We severally raised issues on the Floor of this House regarding the pace of the audit reports because we were getting reports for many years back but we have seen how his Committee has stepped up and we commend him for that work. When he gave his Report, he mentioned two things. I will take the first one from where Sen. Mutula Kilonzo Jnr. left. He said that the accounts of some of us are at risk of being frozen. I have received letters from the Kenya Revenue Authority (KRA), the National Hospital Insurance Fund (NHIF) and the National Social Security Fund (NSSF). They are asking us to pay up to the tune of Kshs14 million for the unpaid Pay As You Earn (PAYE), unpaid NHIF and unpaid NSSF by the previous occupant of the office of the Senator of Nairobi County. I hope that this is a matter that the Committee on County Public Accounts and Investments can deal with. Yesterday, I saw them with the previous Senator, who is currently the Governor of Nairobi County, Governor Mike Sonko. Looking at what we are being asked to pay, it means that no single member of staff had their salaries paid officially as from 2013 to 2017when he left that office. That means that there was no single remittance. It also raises questions internally, because; how is a Senator‟s office paid or given its allocation after the first quarter without returns? I hope that the Committee on County Public Accounts and Investments can ask those questions. They should not just ask the previous occupants of those offices but the Clerk‟s Office too. How could they process and keep sending allocations to an office that has not made a single return as from 2013?"
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