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    "id": 1379414,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Saboti, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Caleb Amisi",
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    "content": "Hon. Deputy Speaker, there is also failure to prepare and submit statements for unspent money repaid into the national exchequer account. This is a provision of Section 45 (1) and (2) of the PFM Act 2012, that provides that: (1) An appropriation that has not been spent at the end of the financial year for which it was appropriated shall lapse immediately at the end of that financial year. (2) Subject to any other legislation where, at the end of a financial year, a national Government entity is holding appropriated money that was withdrawn from the National Exchequer Account but has not been spent, it shall repay the unspent money into the National Exchequer Account and shall prepare and submit a statement of the same to the Controller of Budget, responsibilities of the Cabinet Secretary and functions of the national Government with respect to grants and loans This has not been the case in most of those Semi-Autonomous Government Agencies (SAGAs). There is also failure by the parent ministries to operationalise the State corporations. This is either by default or choice. When you meet officers or CEOs of a SAGA and then you meet the Principal Secretary or the Cabinet Secretary of a Ministry, the CEO of a SAGA appears both as a CEO and as an officer of the ministry. When you have a meeting with the CEO and you later call the Principal Secretary to come and answer questions in regard to that SAGA, he is still accompanied by the same CEO. Meaning, that the CEO is still an officer of that ministry. Those SAGAs have become a conduit for plunder of public resources. They are acquired. As much as some of them are legal, they are moribund. They exist on paper but in the ministry circles, it appears that they are used to plunder public resources. In the same regard, Hon. Deputy Speaker, some of them are used as an exit point or an exit route for public officers who are about to retire, or for non-performers to find them a haven to hide. There is no proper transition of officers of those SAGAs from being seconded from the parent ministries and the proper operationalisation of some of them."
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