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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Navakholo, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Emmanuel Wangwe",
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    "content": "The Act talks about the cabinet secretary which simply refers to the Cabinet Secretary for the National Treasury, but not just any other. That is why we will hold him accountable. We will hold him purely to have been in charge of this because he failed to do what is provided by the PFM Act. There was also failure by the State corporations to keep financial and accounting records that comply with the PFM Act. As I had said earlier, the main issues that are in this Report are on reporting. That is because they got the resources, but they did not have anywhere to report. They were expended by word of mouth. We cannot tell how they were expended, in terms of the law. All the principal secretaries appeared before the Committee and explained. However, the documentation does not hold water in terms of what they are supposed to do, once a corporation is established. In the 11th Parliament, the Leader of the Majority Party cautioned the various cabinet secretaries and principal secretaries not to enact various laws in their boardrooms. The law can only be made in this House, but not any other place. There are various recommendations which we put down, after what we observed. For instance, there are various organisations whose recommendation touch on the core. For instance, we propose that within three months after tabling and adoption of this Report, the cabinet secretary and accounting officer of the..."
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