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    "id": 1378548,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1378548/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Nominated, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. John Mbadi",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 110,
        "legal_name": "John Mbadi Ng'ong'o",
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    "content": "contractors on time. This is the source of many Government officials colluding with contractors to fleece and defraud this country of the much-needed resources. The Committee recommends the following: 1. The National Treasury should only enter into loan agreements whose programme/project implementation plans are ready for immediate execution. Accounting Officers who fail to absorb such funds promptly and within schedule should be personally held liable and will make good the lost interest subject to Article 226(5) of the Constitution. 2. The Auditor-General conducts a forensic audit of the country's entire debt portfolio and submits a report to Parliament within six months of adoption of this Report. 3. The Attorney-General reviews and approves all financing agreements and contracts entered into by the State to secure public interest. There is the cross-cutting issue of dual implementation of projects between National and county governments. The Committee encountered instances under the State Department for Housing and Urban Development where certain donor projects financed by the World Bank to be implemented by county governments posed an accountability challenge, especially in Kisumu. The accounting officer is expected to account for the funds while total responsibility lies with the counties. The funds are given to counties to spend on implementing housing projects that are funded by the World Bank and yet, it is the accounting officer, the PS of the Ministry, who is supposed to appear before us and account for this. The former, basically acting as a conduit, has no control whatsoever. The Committee recommends that such funds be wholly issued to the implementing agency as conditional grants rather than the mongrel arrangement that currently subsists. I am moving to a close of these general cross-cutting issues. May I mention non- compliance with the One-Third Rule of basic salary. This sounds ridiculous, especially with the Housing Levy and others. The raiding of Kenyans pockets by the Government, through Parliament which has been passing these legislations, would make no sense in our law."
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