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    "id": 959494,
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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Sakaja",
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        "legal_name": "Johnson Arthur Sakaja",
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    "content": "Madam Temporary Speaker, I do not know whether to respond to that or not. It is not the work of the Auditor-General to do so, but the Controller of Budget. The Auditor-General does not participate in the day to day approval of disbursements to counties. The Controller of Budget is the one who needs to be satisfied that an Appropriation Act is legal before she agrees to that. That is why we are in court, for it to be made clear that you cannot appropriate before division of revenue has been done. It is true that we would have wanted more money, but we would still be in that perpetual cycle; that if we do not agree next year, counties will suffer and not get money. If we had the luxury of counties still getting the amount of money before – even if it is 15 per cent or 50 per cent – we would have held our ground. However, there are people in the counties today who cannot pay rent. There are people whose children cannot go to school; and there are people with mortgages and loans. We do not want to act brave, say that we are the strongest people and act with so much bravado, yet the common person is suffering. We are enjoying our salaries in the Senate; shame on us, if that is our attitude. Sometimes you make incremental gains on an issue. I am very proud that, as a Senate, we have made an incremental---"
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