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    "id": 952946,
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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Mutula Kilonzo Jr.",
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        "legal_name": "Mutula Kilonzo Jnr",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir. I would like to thank all the Senators for their useful contributions. Most importantly, although this appears like a routine thing about schedules and disbursements, a lot of useful debate has come out of this. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, other than what I made a proposal on, on own source revenue, yesterday it occurred to me - and I would like Sen. (Prof.) Ongeri to hear this because this is an urgent issue - that ultimately the solution is to have a parliamentary audit office, like it happens in the National Council for State Legislatures in the USA. We should have auditors here who can give us financial statements regarding the money that we have been asking for. I am sorry to say that the County Public Accounts and Investments Committee (CPAIC) is giving us financial statements and not value for money. What Sen. Omogeni was talking about is value for money. I give you Kshs4 million to do a borehole; was it was worth it? Is there anything happening there? Just like in the case of Makueni County, these people have become very good in drawing papers. They will do very nice papers and lofty statements, but eventually when you go back to the ground, you will find nothing there. It bothers me that pilferage is happening when we have a Controller of Budget. If you recall, the previous Constitution had the Controller and Auditor General. We split it in such a way that budgets can be controlled. If budgets are controlled and disbursements The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate."
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