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    "id": 1236035,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Nominated, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. John Mbadi",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "John Mbadi Ng'ong'o",
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    "content": "We want the books of the Auditor-General to also be audited, so that we do not have an Auditor-General who audits others and yet, their books for the 2020/2021 and 2021/2022 financial years have not been audited. With the way we are moving with our work as the Public Accounts Committee, I foresee us concluding the audits of the 2020/2021 Financial Year within the next month. We will come up with a report and immediately we resume after the recess, the report will be tabled. My Committee has already set a target of September this year to clear with the 2021/2022 Financial Year. That will mean that the Parliament of Kenya will have cleared the audits of all pending financial years and we will be waiting for the Auditor-General to now audit the books of the 2022/2023 Financial Year. Stories of how we cannot divide revenue based on current audited accounts will be a thing of the past. As we progress, we will do more special audits as the Public Accounts Committee. We will require the Auditor-General to do more work because the Committee will not have the usual historical backlog of financial audits. We will now be doing special and forensic audits. We will be calling upon the Auditor-General to always do those audits and bring the reports to us. Therefore, we need to allocate more funds to the Office of the Auditor- General. That is what I was driving at. As a House, we need to allocate more resources to that office, if we want to reduce corruption in this country. Hon. Deputy Speaker, I know Members are interested in discussing the next Motion after this one and so, I will stop there. 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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