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    "id": 1013378,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mandera West, EFP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Yusuf Adan",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Adan Haji Yussuf",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I also rise to add my voice to the IFMIS system issue. I think this Statement is timely. Any system that is put in place is there for the sake of improving efficiency, transparency and for the betterment of the users of that system. But since IFMIS came on board, I think the system is good but some of the users of this IFMIS manipulate it and others use it for other purposes. It has become an animal that most of the people who wait for money through that system fear. For instance, when contractors who do work for the Government finish their work and are given certificate of completion and are told to wait for their payments, suddenly they are told IFMIS is closed. What the Leader of the Minority said is right, maybe at that particular time, there may be no money. But the best way is not to close and keep quiet, but to inform those who are expected to get money through that system that it will be done either tomorrow or any other day. But to only give one reason that IFMIS is now closed and, therefore, there is no way to move forward or backward, you just stick there and wait for IFMIS to open... The IFMIS was put there to improve efficiency and safeguard money. When you hear billions of shillings have been stolen through IFMIS or it has been operated by somebody who is not known or somebody whose identity is not clear, it gives us a lot of doubt that the sole purpose of putting this system and what is happening are quite different. Therefore, I will urge my friends that the ball is now in the court of the Committee in charge of ICT. Let us hear of improvements and a friendlier IFMIS that is there for us and Kenyans all over. Whenever we hear IFMIS, let it be positive. Let us stop hearing negativity all the time. The IFMIS negativity and the statement that there is no money; everything, is blamed on this animal IFMIS. I think we need to identify this animal called IFMIS, brand it and put it for the betterment of this country."
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