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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Orengo",
    "speaker_title": "The Senate Minority Leader",
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        "legal_name": "Aggrey James Orengo",
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    "content": "In fact, it is not an issue that you have to go to a bank account to look at some documents when you are being shown real things. When they hear us or the Auditor- General saying that that county is doing very well, we really become a laughing stock. I would urge the County Public Accounts Committee (CPAIC) that these remarks are really for them to intensify their work. The Auditor-General is an instrument of Parliament; he is accountable to Parliament. They do not report to any other institution. They do not report to the President or the Judiciary. It is a mechanism for Parliament to play its role under the principal of no taxation without representation so that the public will be sure that the money they are taxed is used effectively for their own good. Therefore, I fully agree with Sen. (Prof.) Ongeri and the other Members of the Committee when they said that we want to see some of these reports and one day we want even to extend the time because it has come with shocking revelations. Right now it would appear that it is the EACC which is doing quite bit of this work, but the constitutional instrument that we have is the Auditor-General and he is accountable to us. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, the only other point that I wanted to address other than supporting the Motion, is that in different circumstances I may probably say that what we are doing now amounts to nothing because it is based on an illegality right from the beginning. All this debate can be rendered annulity. I was listening to the Speaker of the House of Commons who upon the pronouncement of the supreme court in United Kingdom said: “Parliament is resuming debate; there was never a prorogation”. The journals or records of Parliament must be corrected that there was never a prorogation. The record that was entered in the journal courtesy of the prerogative of the Queen to prorogue, that was expunged. In different circumstances, we may find somebody getting orders that all what happened since the discussion of those two Bills; the Division of Revenue Bill and the County Allocation of Revenue Bill; all that amounted to nothing and, therefore, the consequence of this Motion also amounts to nothing."
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