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    "id": 956332,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/956332/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Garissa Township, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Aden Duale",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Aden Bare Duale",
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    "content": "Kenyans must be told how much the Senate is spending on Senate Mashinani . The Auditor- General must speak to this matter. I do not think they will come to my county. They are in Kitui County. What I have heard is that they have been caught up in the wars between the Senator and the Governor of Kitui County. That is not what we can call “Senate Mashinani .” The Senate should know that the Chairperson of the Budget and Appropriations Committee is talking about the Budget of the Financial Year 2020/2021. The Budget cycle has already begun. In the next few months, after public participation, we will get the next document of the 2020/2021 Financial Year. So, when we deal with the Division of Revenue Bill, it will not be that people would have woken up one morning to deal with it. The Senate must follow the 2020/2021 Financial Year Budget from now on, as the Chairperson has said. Second, it is important that the money that we appropriate to Government, particularly to the national Government, the Judiciary, Parliament and the independent offices through our respective committees, is followed up to check whether it has been used according to how the House appropriated. The Standing Orders allow us to do so. I agree with the Chairperson that every three months, for example, the Departmental Committee responsible for education and that responsible for energy can give this House reports on how the monies appropriated to the spending entities under them have been used so far, including indication of their absorption rates. That element of appropriation must be followed with oversight. We are all talking about fighting corruption. This august House, alongside the Directorate of Public Prosecutions, the Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission (EACC), the Office of the Auditor-General, and the Office of the Controller of Budget, have an oversight role to establish how each penny appropriated through the Appropriations Bill has been used, and if the people of Kenya got value for it. On the Chairs who were present at the meeting, the Chairperson of the Budget and Appropriations Committee is right that we must have three quarterly reports tabled, debated and approved by the House, so that we do not give money to an agency or a Government Department whose absorption rate is low. Why should we give them money if they cannot spend what we gave them, on behalf of the people of Kenya? The Chairperson did well apart from insinuating bad motive on the DCI and Committee Chairs. When he comes to my office, I will deal with that matter."
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