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    "id": 893966,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/893966/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. (Prof.) Ongeri",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 124,
        "legal_name": "Samson Kegeo Ongeri",
        "slug": "samson-ongeri"
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    "content": "Madam Temporary Speaker, I sometimes wonder when people call to question the role of the Senate. Obviously, if the Senate is not involved, the kind of squander you have already seen elsewhere is going to be very rampant in every county. We have, for instance, gone through the fiduciary risk of all the 47 counties. It is amazing that some of the counties have attracted adverse reports or disclaimers. When we look through the list, there are about five or six such counties which have attracted disclaimers throughout the period of their financial auditing from the financial years 2013/2014, 2015/2016, 2016/2017 to now, 2017/2018. Indeed, our Committee will be presenting before this House the way we want to handle this matter. We want to be current with auditing oversight work when it comes to these counties that have attracted disclaimers. The same applies to those counties which have attracted adverse reports, leave alone the qualified reports. There are only two counties that have attracted unqualified reports; those are Nyandarua and Makueni. Are you telling me that all these years they have never learnt? Could it be that the missing link is non-participation of the public in running the affairs of the counties? That is why I see this Bill as an important element in assisting both the Senate and the Senators, the county assemblies and the executive in being able to do that which is necessary."
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