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    "id": 967037,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/967037/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kikuyu, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Kimani Ichung’wah",
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        "id": 1835,
        "legal_name": "Anthony Kimani Ichung'Wah",
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    "content": "There are certain critical issues I would want to speak to in relation to the provisions of Article 228 of the Constitution. It stipulates that the Controller of Budget will every four months submit to each House of Parliament a report on the implementation of the budgets of the national and county governments. The previous holder of this office, Agnes, was not very good at this, and it may not be a problem of the person per-se, but could be an institutional or structural problem within the Office of the Controller of Budget. I, therefore, challenge this nominee, that as soon as she walks into that office, some of the challenges that we face as a House and some of the challenges we face as a country, is on the slow implementation especially of our development expenditure. The National Assembly oversees the national Government Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDAs) and the Senate oversees the role of county governments. It cannot perform that role effectively without reports on implementation of budgets every quarter. It is a constitutional obligation of the office holder to ensure they submit to each House a report on the implementation of the budgets of both levels of Government every four months. I, therefore, ask the nominee, as much as she is coming to office rather late in the day, to ensure that at the end of this quarter, and we will be watching to see by the time we come back to the House in February, whether she will have filed the reports on the implementation of the budget for both levels of Governments to the two Houses."
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