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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kathiani, WDM-K",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Robert Mbui",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, for this opportunity to also rise and support the adoption of the Report of the Special Funds Accounts Committee on its consideration of the audited financial statements of the Commodities Fund. I wish to begin by saying that the Chair has alluded to the fact that, of course, there have been many changes in the Committee. I just wanted to tell him that it is not the leadership of the House that made all those changes. Some of the Members of your Committee actually made requests to move to other committees. This is not to say that the Committee is junior to others but sometimes after a while Members just want to get a change. A change is as good as a rest. So, Chair, the Member from my party requested to move on and he still supports what you are doing. This Fund basically, from what I understand, deals with coffee and sugar development. I have a number of concerns the first one being the speed in the clearing of the backlog of the audited accounts because we are talking about the returns for 2015/2016 and 2016/2017 yet we are now in 2020. I want to understand why we are not doing maybe 2018/2019. That should have come out in the Chair’s communication to the House because when we talk about audits, we are basically saying that the auditor is trying to check whether the money is being spent prudently. If there is any negative use of money or misappropriation then action needs to be taken. So, if you are talking about misappropriation that occurred in 2018/2019 and the reports are not even here, then we are The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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