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    "id": 976557,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kinangop, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Zachary Thuku",
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        "legal_name": "Zachary Kwenya Thuku",
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    "content": "Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I want to bring to your attention something that is of interest. I sit in one of the oversight committees concerned with matters of finance. I got concerned today because we could be debating most of the audit reports that have been tabled in this House in vain. Article 229 (8) of the Constitution provides that we should expedite debate and adopt or reject the reports within three months after they have been tabled, but that does not seem to happen. We have been debating reports that have been tabled in this House six months or a year ago. It is becoming an issue because today, I can tell for sure that there is someone in court - an interested organisation - that was mentioned in one of the reports. I wish, as a House, we could also look at Article 229 (8) of the Constitution and see whether we can amend it so that we can extend the time for looking at audited reports that are tabled in the House. Otherwise, we will be doing that which is not envisaged in the Constitution."
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