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    "id": 1018014,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1018014/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kabondo Kasipul, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. (Ms.) Eve Obara",
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        "legal_name": "Eve Akinyi Obara",
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    "content": " Hon. Deputy Speaker, as I have said, I, too, support the sentiments of my colleagues. The NG – CDF has played a critical role in almost all constituencies. This is obvious to the extent that you wonder, as my colleagues have said, what exactly is happening to the money of the county? My colleagues will agree with me that on all problems that face the constituents, the first stop is at the Member of Parliament’s office. They will ask you things like health, we do not have medicine; we do not have water; we do not have roads; we are looking for fertilizers and you wonder, maybe, we need to educate our citizens on the critical roles of these offices. So that they know that when they want pads and those kinds of things, where they are supposed to go. If they are talking of health and all those devolved functions, they know where they are supposed to go and what they are supposed to do in the office of the MP. That has been a problem in my first year in office. Hon. Deputy Speaker, I will just talk on one area of observation and that is on the role of the district accountant. While playing my oversight role, I have noticed something that was picked by the Committee on managing the accounts of the NG – CDF. How can a district accountant take seven months before they do reconciliation of accounts? How can they take seven months, making no entry in the vote book? You wonder, because these are the most basic functions of accounting. This is happening. So, at the end of the year, they have nothing to show the auditors. The issue is, where are these documents? We do not have them, and we are still looking for them. They do not keep records the way they are supposed to. This is an area that the Committee should strongly recommend that the Board should have its own independent accountants to be handling the books of accounts for the NG – CDF, even if it means a few sub-counties coming together with one accountant to look at the books. Otherwise, this is an area where money is lost if we are not careful and …"
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