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    "id": 1379407,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Navakholo, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Emannuel Wangwe",
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    "content": "2. Within three months upon tabling and adoption of this Report and after the financial statements are submitted for audit, the Auditor-General should audit and report to Parliament on the Appropriations-in-Aid and any other monies received or collected by the entity in form of grants. That organisation receives grants, Appropriations-in-Aid and has extension of resources from the exchequer on direct note. However, they do not keep their books of accounts; neither do they keep records. Finally, we looked at the Public Health Officers and Technicians Council. The following observations were made: 1. The Public Health Officers and Technicians Council was established as a body corporate by the Public Health Officers (Training, Registration and Licensing) Act of 2013. 2. The Ministry failed to comply with appointing a substantive board of the Public Health Officers and Technicians Council when the Act came into force on 18th September 2013. 3. Since 2017, the Accounting Officer of the Council failed to prepare financial statements and accounts of the monies received as Appropriations-in-Aid and thereafter submitting to the Auditor-General for audit. This is in contravention of Section 68 (2)(k) of the Public Finance Management Act of 2012. Our recommendations are as follows: 1. Parliament reprimands the Cabinet Secretary in charge of health for failing to monitor the financial performance of the Public Health Officers and Technicians Council in line with Section 88 of the Public Finance Management Act of 2012. 2. The Accounting Officer shall prepare the outstanding financial statements of the council since inception and submit them to the Auditor-General for audit. 3. The Auditor-General shall audit and report to Parliament in accordance with Article 229 of the Constitution and the Public Finance Management Act 2015. 4. Within three months upon tabling and adoption of this Report, the Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission should investigate the matter of the Public Health Officers and Technicians Council outsourcing private auditors contrary to Section 23 of the Public Finance Management Act of 2015. This is to ascertain any loss of public funds, including audit fees paid to the private auditors. Subsequently, the Office of the Director of Public Prosecution should prefer appropriate charges."
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