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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Mutula Kilonzo Jr.",
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        "legal_name": "Mutula Kilonzo Jnr",
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    "content": "are being issued based on budgets, on what basis are people operating huge bank accounts? On what basis are Governors withdrawing Kshs17 million to Kshs20 million in cash? On what basis are counties like Makueni keeping 18 commercial bank accounts? That is a concern that we must address. It is disappointing that in the vetting of the new Controller of Budget, we will not have a role. It pains me dearly that we will not be able to tackle this issue. However, I hope that tomorrow we can get our colleagues here and send this report straight to the National Treasury and our county assemblies; send the money within seven days and let us see some action. We must continue preaching to that Committee that we have bestowed our faith in them. As I said in Kitui, when I am hung on the left, Sen. (Prof.) Ongeri would be on the right. This is because we have even entrusted them with our core mandate as elected Senators, for them to give us something. That is the pain we feel when we do not get something concrete. This House has such good people that when we go to our counties the temptation to go into a market and start saying that the governor is a thief or someone has stolen is too high, but we have restrained ourselves so much. This is because we have entrusted that responsibility, as onerous as it is, to nine Members of the CPAIC. May you, CPAIC, not let us down because it will be very sad if that happens; that at the end of this Session, we will carry to our counties empty shells, empty talk and rhetoric from the Floor of the Senate, and nothing tangible other than passing good budgets. With those few remarks, I beg to reply and request that under Standing Order 61(3), you defer the putting of the Question until tomorrow. Thank you, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir."
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