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    "id": 893919,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/893919/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. M. Kajwang",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 13162,
        "legal_name": "Moses Otieno Kajwang'",
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    "content": "“The county executive committee member and the the clerk of the respective county assembly shall keep and maintain the information relevant to the allocation of monies, collection of revenue and such other information on the finances of respective county and shall upon request, avail the information to a member of the public” That is correct and good. However, we need to have a clause that compels someone to provide that information to the Senator. We need to look at the Public Finance Management Act and the budget process. There a lot of documents and records that are sent to the Controller of Budget, the Auditor-General, the National Treasury and the Central Bank of Kenya (CBK) and all sorts of stakeholders but the Senator or the Senate as an institution is never involved. We probably need to revisit the Public Finance Management Act and the relevant pieces of legislation and regulation. We need to make it mandatory that if a budget is approved by the county assembly, a copy of it shall be brought to the House and, may be, tabled for noting. The person who has the responsibility of keeping and maintaining information relevant to allocation monies, collection of revenue and such other information of finances of respective county, for purposes of the Senator should becomes the clerk of the senate rather than the clerk of the assembly and the CEC, Member. Madam Temporary Speaker, I said that the bad and ugly could just be three but the good outstrip the bad and the ugly. I believe that these are provisions that we can look at and amend before we enact this piece of legislation. We recently processed the Public Participation Bill and it would be important to find ways of synergizing these proposals with those carried out in the Public Participation Bill. Madam Temporary Speaker, we had an early debate which presupposed that the oversight role of this House has been delegated fully to the County Public Accounts and Investment Committee. Having chaired this Committee for three years, out of experience, exposure and research, I beg that we need to adopt a different perspective. Each Senator in this House individually has an oversight role."
}