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    "id": 1019575,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1019575/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Nominated, ANC",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Godfrey Osotsi",
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        "legal_name": "Godfrey Osotsi",
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    "content": "When we talk about systems, we are talking about procedures, processes and IT based systems. The IT based systems in the counties do not have the capability to provide the right platform for achieving what this Bill is trying to achieve. So, I hope we will have a process to ensure we have IT systems that are easy to integrate, monitor and control. That would be very important. Even as we talk about such systems in the counties, we should also talk about the systems at the national level. As an IT expert, I can tell you that we have one system in the country called Integrated Financial Management Information System (IFMIS) which is a fraud. As per the Report of the Auditor-General on the ICT audit that was done, a lot of gaps and leakages were identified. I am not sure whether those gaps and leakages have been sealed. It even allows multi transaction on the same invoice. People have been paid multiple times from that system. The system is very easy to hark into. Parliament will help this nation by demanding for an audit of the IFMIS so that as we improve our collection systems in the counties, we also improve our systems at the national level. Otherwise, this particular move is going to ensure increased transparency because there will be less physical cash handling, which is a key contributor to revenue leakages. We also need to have a specific legislation on on-source revenue collection."
}