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    "id": 893704,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/893704/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Sakaja",
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        "legal_name": "Johnson Arthur Sakaja",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir. I thank Sen. Mutula Kilonzo Jnr. for refraining from hovering around the Dispatch Box. I want to thank the Chairperson of the Committee on Finance and Budget. As he promised, he has been very efficient in responding to that issue. For the sake of the Senators who were not there, we had agreed at the Leadership Retreat of the House-- because the kind of oversight we have been doing is more of historic nature, we insisted every Senator be receiving the monthly Exchequer Release Reports from the Controller of Budget detailing how much money has been released to specific counties and for what purposes. Currently, we have been like pathologists performing postmortems. The Controller of Budget acceded to our request and asked for individual Senator’s email addresses for that purpose. For example, when I go to Mbagathi General Hospital and I am told there is no medicine and yet I can see from the Exchequer release report that money for that purpose was requisitioned and sent on such a date, I will be more effective in my oversight role. I want to thank the Chairperson of the Committee on Finance and Budget. I want him to commit that on top of us seeking out the County Controller of Budgets, he can at least facilitate that process so that all the Senators can do real time oversight. This is because we are neither historians nor pathologists, but hon. Senators. We need to do it real time."
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