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    "speaker_name": "Nominated, ANC",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Godfrey Osotsi",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker for the opportunity to contribute to this Motion. It is a very important one. Like my colleagues, I take these few minutes to express my condolences and those of my family to the families of Hon. Ken Okoth and Hon. Governor, Joyce Laboso. These are people I have known. I am one of the products of Joyce Laboso. She taught me communication at Egerton University. For those who went through Egerton University, we remember her as a lecturer who was very devoted to her job. She was very friendly to all the students. It was very entertaining to attend her classes. Even though some of us were doing science courses, we enjoyed attending her courses. I also want to acknowledge that she is one of the very successful women in this country, having been one of the two women pioneer governors after the last general election. As you are aware, she was also the Deputy Speaker of this House. So, we have lost a very important person in Joyce Laboso. I have also known Hon. Ken Okoth for the short period I have been a Member of Parliament. I remember interacting with him on the issue of the use of marijuana for medical reasons. I am sure he had a very good vision. As someone had said earlier, this Parliament will have to revisit the Bill he had proposed to see what can be done, so that we can actualise the dream that he had. Going on to the Motion of the day, which is procurement of external services for the Office of the Auditor-General, this is long overdue considering this aspect is provided for in Article 226(4) of the Constitution of Kenya. It provides that the National Assembly shall appoint a professionally qualified accountant to audit the books of the Office of the Auditor-General. That is very important because the Auditor-General cannot audit himself. Someone independent needs to audit the office. So, this is a very good development. But I am concerned that we are doing this four years later. It would be more efficient in future that the Office of the Auditor- General is audited each year. A lot of things can happen in four years. I have also noticed that when this process started, it was non-responsive. As we all know, PKF is a very credible audit firm. The other audit firms which were competing with it are largely unknown. They do not have adequate experience in this area. So, we are going for the PKF. We need to make the process attractive in future, so that we can have the big audit firms which are known for doing good work like the Pricewaterhouse Coopers and Ernst & Young interested in this work. It looks like the interest levels were very low. I also want to commend the Office of The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposes only. Acertified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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