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    "id": 946470,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/946470/?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": "Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, Moving on to Machakos County, we realized that there were serious weaknesses in the maintenance of cashbooks and bank reconciliations. This means that you cannot use the cashbooks as a basis to describe all transactions carried out by the county. It simply means that you cannot tell how cash was utilized in that county. There was also un-surrendered imprest of Kshs46.9 million. Going forward, you will find reports of the adventure that the county got into, as far as purchase of assets was concerned. Machakos County bought 91 Nissan Tiida model vehicles, which were supposed to be used by the police, yet there was no Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Ministry concerned. A total of Kshs219.4 million was spent on this venture. Within the context of the Intergovernmental Relations Act, it is possible for a county government to undertake a function that has been reserved for the national Government, but there needs to be a MoU in place. In this case, the county government did not provide the MoU. The country will recall the issue of the Subaru Outback vehicles and the ambulances that were bought by Machakos County totaling to Kshs145.3 million. We have made recommendations that the DCI and the EACC should undertake investigations into those procurements and confirm whether they were done within the law."
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