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    "id": 1378624,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mbeere North, DP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Ruku GK",
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    "content": "seriously. Those officers should ensure that there are no late submissions of necessary documents that show how they are implementing different projects in their departments, and that they do not have stalled projects. This Report says that there are many stalled projects in the 2020/2021 Financial Year. It also points out weak internal audits. Strong internal audits are critical functions for all Government departments, parastatals or organisations. It seems that the then administration was not keen on ensuring that there were strong internal audits. We have talked about the issue of pending bills over the years. They are a big elephant in the room and a big concern for every Government. Even this Government has inherited the problem. Hopefully, we will sort this out once and for all. The cabinet secretaries and their principal secretaries held a second retreat to harmonise their work and ensure that some of the issues that are reported here will not be the case when the audit report for the 2022/2023 and 2024/2025 financial years will be tabled in this House. The retreats that are organized by the President will ensure that what has been reported here will be a thing of the past. This Report points out Executive Orders which established some Government units which lacked total support. It also indicates very poor liability management of the Republic of Kenya. Through such reports, we call upon the current Government to ensure that the National Treasury properly manages public liabilities. This will ensure that we do not get into a hole that we cannot pull ourselves out of. Hon. Mbadi has laid a good Report that vindicates the Kenyans who woke up early in August 2022 and made the right decision. We ask the current Government to take note of this and go through some of these reports for them to put their act in order. For sure, I know that this is being done. Hon. Temporary Speaker, it has been reported that there was a serious under- performance by the Exchequer in the financial year 2020/2021 in terms of releasing money from the National Treasury to different Government departments. It is a thing which is also affecting the current Government. If there are people who need to be held accountable and seriously overseen by this House, it is the technocrats who work at the National Treasury. If there are cartels in this country, you are likely to find them at the National Treasury. Principal Secretaries from other ministries queue at the National Treasury for Exchequer release. Therefore, the incapacity to correct the Appropriations-in-Aid (A-in-A) from different Government bodies should be looked into in a serious manner. Today, the Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission (EACC) collects money from the proceeds of crime. The Anti-Corruption and Economic Crimes Act 2023 does not give EACC powers to treat monies collected from the proceeds of crime as A-in-A. That money should be taken to the Consolidated Fund so that the Government can use it to implement different projects. There are quite a number of budgetary under-performances as reported in these reports. We hope some of these things have been addressed in the first and the second retreats that were organised by the President because, as you know, it had never happened in the previous administrations. Instead, the President then used to lecture everybody, including his cabinet secretaries, Members of Parliament as well as principal secretaries. So, they worked under fear and probably that may be one of the reasons as to why we have got a very bad report for financial year 2020/2021. With those many remarks, I support."
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