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    "speaker_name": "Kitui Central, WDM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. (Dr) Makali Mulu",
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    "content": " Thank you very much, Hon. Temporary Speaker. I want to start by thanking Hon. Mbadi and his Committee for bringing this Report. I was here when he was moving the Report. I listened to the cross-cutting issues. I am sure you are very much aware that you, Hon. Mbadi, Hon. Wangwe and I, have been here for a long time. I was trying to compare what we are hearing with what we have been hearing when we get these reports presented. It is very frustrating. As a House, we need to consider the fact that almost 80 per cent of all those cross-cutting issues have been captured in all the past reports. The question is whether we are just doing this for the sake of doing it. Is this House acting in vain? If you look at the papers for the last two weeks, you will realise that the Auditor-General has been coming out very strongly to indicate areas where public resources are being misappropriated or misdirected. Even as this Committee does this excellent job, we need to think about how we implement these important recommendations to save this country from this kind of waste. I am sure that most Kenyans agree with me that we will have no reason to borrow in this country if we spend our resources prudently. Our problem is wastage. There is so much wastage as those who engage in that wastage just move around scot-free. For example, when you look at the Report, it says that we have accounting officers or chief accountants who cannot keep books of accounts. These are just simple records of accounts. A chief accountant is somebody who has a CPA (K) in this country. I believe those are some of the people who have CPA (K) on paper but, in reality, they have not earned the papers. That is why the Public Service Commission said that this country has a lot of people with fake degrees and fake academic papers. Time has come where we will have no choice but to sack somebody who we have given a mandate to be in charge of a Ministry as the chief accounting officer or the chief accountant and they cannot prepare simple books of accounts, so that they can go home and do other things. We cannot be sitting here every other time and see Kenyans losing money. This is taxpayers’ money; the money me and you are being squeezed to the last cent to contribute. Imagine a small business man in Homa Bay Town who has been taxed – we are talking about taxation here – and after getting the tax from the old business man or an old mama and a hawker, we give the money to the Treasury and then the best an accounting officers can do is what we are seeing in this Report. They cannot keep books. We cannot continue The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor"
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