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    "id": 909974,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/909974/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Nakuru Town East, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. David Gikaria",
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    "content": "It is one of the aspects that, as a Committee, we found wanting. This happened in almost three of those parastatals and it has been something that, as a Committee, we will be making recommendations within the law so that we can have directors being replaced as and when the vacancies arise. Secondly, as a Committee, we looked at the implementation of the Budget. The Controller of Budget is supposed to give us quarterly reports. Whenever we receive those reports and compare them vis-a-vis the report given by the Ministry and the semi-autonomous Government agencies to the National Treasury, they are contradictory. Sometimes you do not know which of these State departments to believe. We need to deal with some of those issues. Something that I never spoke about and is very critical to this Committee is the pending payment of deemed power of Kshs1.6 billion by Kenya Power that is supposed to be paid. In the just concluded Second Supplementary Estimates, the Committee refused this item because the taxpayer has not received value for that money. It is surprising that the same company that is being paid for that deemed power was not ready with the transmission line by the time the country was ready. This is one of the issues that we are…"
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