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    "id": 933392,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Cheruiyot",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 13165,
        "legal_name": "Aaron Kipkirui Cheruiyot",
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    "content": "counties, comes from, it is from Article 228 of our Constitution. The Office of the Controller of Budget has failed this country. Mr. Speaker, Sir, you have been a governor and you understand how public finance in counties is managed. We cannot expense public funds unless you have a budget for that particular budget line item. How it is that county governments are able to requisition money, say to pay for a particular road, but thereafter, because of the meanderings therein, they end up paying a particular supplier, as it has been pointed out by Sen. Malalah, because that supplier is a friend to the governor? Mr. Speaker, Sir, this is a very important issue. I request that the Committee on Finance and Budget be quickly seized of this matter. Article 228(6) of the Constitution clearly states that for every four months, the Office of the Controller of Budget shall submit to each House of Parliament a report on the implementation of budgets of national and county governments. Sen. Olekina, the Controller of Budget needs to give you, every four months, a report showing the people what Gov. Samuel Tunai has paid in the last four months. This is the only way you can keep a track of all the people who have been paid. If you notice a particular supplier or entity that is paid repeatedly, yet you know that the young people in your county who are supplying goods and services to the county government are not paid because they do not have the high connections; then you must begin raising questions from that particular point. Those are the provisions and intention of Article 228(6). Therefore, having a new Controller of Budget in office now, and she is about to be vetted by our colleagues in the National Assembly--- I suggest that when she takes on the reigns of the Office of the Controller of Budget, she should be brought before this House. Mr. Speaker Sir, you recall that at the beginning of this 12th Parliament, we brought Ms. Agnes Odhiambo here, and we raised the issue of pending bills. Unfortunately, she has left office without having sufficiently addressed this issue. The audit that was carried out by the Office of the Auditor-General unraveled things that many of us did not know---"
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