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    "speaker_name": "Navakholo, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Emannuel Wangwe",
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    "content": "also part of the 12 constituencies, since 2013 when we began it. I was the first Member of Parliament and I have won it all through to date. I thank the Committee, especially for the cross-cutting issues they have raised. I want to be very particular and look at the issues they have raised. They noted that there was poor coordination between the Office of the Auditor-General and fund account managers regarding timely response to audit queries. This is an issue that affected my constituency and it was raised, but later after the queries had been put forward and Auditor-General raised it for subsequent review, I can see the Committee has reported that the necessary documentations were filed, reviewed and given a clean bill of health. This is very true. Being a new constituency, we had a lot of reconciliations to hand over from Lurambi to Navakholo. In the process of handing over, receiving and commencing a new constituency, there were issues which are now being touched on in the audit. I thank the Committee and my Fund Manager that he, indeed, endured time, and made the necessary submissions. Today, as I speak on the Floor, my constituency is cleared. There are no issues that were outstanding, rather than presentation of papers to justify the expenditures. Another cross-cutting issue that I would like to look at is the fund account managers experiencing challenges in adapting to the International Public Sector Accounting Standards (IPSAS). Unless you get a qualified accountant, any other person might not understand these standards, and my constituency also experienced the same. In their recommendation, the Committee is asking us that in the 2023/2024 Financial Year, we need to employ accountants. In 2017, upon seeing what was happening in accounts, I engaged a certified accountant in my office who is doing the reports. We are already compliant. I thank the Committee for picking it up. For those colleagues who have not done so, the Committee is telling you that in 2023/2024 Financial Year, you have to do that. I thank the Committee very much for highlighting the cross-cutting issue of incidences of non-presentation of issued bursary cheques, where cheques are issued, but are not presented for one reason or another. This is a cross-cutting issue across our constituencies. Mine was not spared. That is when you end up finding that there are balances in bursaries. When the query was raised, the schedules were filed with the Auditor-General. As we speak, my constituency is cleared of that and I am very happy with the Fund Account Manager who handled this audit. What I see in general is that, the Report of the Committee is a true reflection of what is on the ground. The committee has reported as if it sits in the offices that we seat in. That is a good thing. There is a case that was picked from my constituency. When I was a new Member of Parliament, I had to put up a new office for the Deputy County Commissioner (DCC). The office was co-funded with funds that were in Lurambi Constituency and topped up with funds that were in the Navakholo Constituency account. That mingling of funds raised an audit query on where we got the funds from pocket A and pocket B. Upon the justification of where we got the money belonging to the larger Lurambi Constituency, the query was sorted and the matter settled. I want to thank the Committee very much for picking up such small issues that represent true facts on the ground as they happened. This is a wonderful Report. I want to thank the 12th Parliament for having thought it wise to have this Committee in place to oversight our constituencies from within. I want to thank, Hon. Mulyungi and his Committee for this Report. Thank you."
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