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    "speaker_name": "Hon. John Mbadi (",
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    "content": "Nominated, ODM): I am sure that Nancy Gathungu will not contract PKF again to audit any other Government institution through her office. Well, they can get audit work without the Office of the Auditor-General. I am sure it will be conflict of interest if the Office of the Auditor-General contracts them again. As I conclude, once more, I want to assure the Leader of the Majority Party and the people of Kenya that the Public Accounts Committee is doing its work objectively and not looking at political camps. We are almost done with 2020/2021 Financial Year, the Report will be tabled in this House, and the Members will have an opportunity to interact with it. Cartels whether they were of the previous regimes or the current one should not have any space in this country. Cartels are destructive to the economy of this country and we must deal with them. Hon. Ichung’wah has some selective memory and I do not know why? I have equally communicated the same way I talked about the fertiliser audits. According to Article 232 of the Constitution, the Auditor-General has up to the end of June to audit all expenditure which were made by the previous regime and the current one. So, the Report will come to the Public Accounts Committee as a Special Audit Report. The moment it lands on our table as PAC of the National Assembly, we will transact our business publicly. So, you will see all those issues of maize subsidy. That is why I wondered why committees of Parliament which are dealing with matters which are clearly audit issues are transacting business and summoning or inviting State officers without any audit report before them. I think that is where politics begin. If we have a report from the Office of the Auditor-General, clearly stating what happens with taxpayers’ money, then it will not be political. The people of Kenya are not stupid. They know when John Mbadi is playing politics and when I am professional. Most of the time, if not all the time, I am professional and objective when it comes to matters accountability. So, Hon. Ichung’wah, do not worry. If there were people who carried money sijui to Malaysia, I do not know where you meet them when they were taking the money to Malaysia. You are likely to be convicted for being in conspiracy with people who are stealing our money. This is because you seem to be having too much details about them carrying money to Malaysia and whatever tax haven. I think you must have been participating in those things."
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