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    "id": 1081472,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Funyula, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. (Dr.) Wilberforce Oundo",
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        "legal_name": "Wilberforce Ojiambo Oundo",
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    "content": "Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, reading the entire Report, the summary Report, the Auditor-General’s Report and other reports, we can simply, on average, confirm that public funds for the year under review, 2017/2018, were not used in a prudent and responsible way. Looking at the various conclusions by the Auditor-General in respect of various departments, you would find that close to 80 per cent of the agencies have a Qualified Report, meaning that there were material issues that were not properly addressed. One of the most ‘irritating’ things - I hope that word is parliamentary accepted- is that most of the Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDAs) deliberately declined to give the Auditor-General the required documentation to enable her verify whether public funds had been used in a prudent and responsible manner. This simply suggests that, probably, there is something that these accounting officers are hiding. That is why when they came before the Public Accounts Committee, they attempted to provide the reports way beyond the time allowed under the Audit Act and the Public Finance Management Act, essentially being a complete breach of the law. I believe that with those kind of public accounts officers, we must review the respective Acts so that we tighten them. It may not have resulted in loss of money, but the mere fact they declined to provide the documents at the required time means they went back and either doctored the reports or looked for supporting documents much later as was not allowed. Under Article 203 of the Constitution, equitable share of the national revenue is supposed to be shared based on the most recent audited accounts approved by the National Assembly. We are debating 2017/2018 Financial Year. We are now preparing the budgets for 2021/2022 Financial Year based on 2016/2017 approved accounts. The challenge and the point of concern that we must raise, as Members of Parliament, is that since 2017 does it reflect the performance of the economy? Does it reflect the performance of revenue collection to use as the basis of allocating equitable share of revenue?"
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