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    "id": 1272433,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1272433/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Molo, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Kuria Kimani",
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    "content": "Even our young people feel us, taking pictures in big cars and posting them on social media. We celebrate when one posts a photo of oneself in a big car, but we do not appreciate the time when they used to use motorcycles. Celebrating wealth and not hard work thus runs into the culture that we see in our society. How do we then address the issue over and above having a generational conversation on hard work? We can only do that by ensuring that Government systems work. The Members of the Departmental Committee on Finance and National Planning has taken upon themselves to move our accounting system from cash to accrued accounting, which is a good thing. What we see happening in the last month of every financial year, and when we approach a general election, is urgency by MDAs to spend all the money they have in their accounts because if any money remains unspent by 30th June, it will be returned to the National Treasury. This gives opportunity to Government officers to steal. The shift to the accrued accounting system has enabled the MDAs to continue with implementation of all programmes that have been budgeted for beyond 30th June. This is a policy direction that will help us end corruption in this country."
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