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    "id": 1379440,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Funyula, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. (Dr) Ojiambo Oundo",
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    "content": "Hon. Speaker, I do not know whether you sit in the House Business Committee (HBC) or the Speaker’s Panel, but it is extremely important that you prevail upon the Committee on Implementation, whose Chairperson is none other than my neighbour and brother-in-law from Budalang’i; that, within every six months or so, they table their reports so that we are able to track what they have done in respect of the various reports that have been adopted by this House. This Report has juicy and important recommendations that should not be allowed to just lie there. If there is a way of doing so, we could process this Report before we finalise the budget-making process so that there can be a recommendation to the effect that any State corporation or body established by an executive order, or anybody authorised by law to operationalise the Act, should not have funds disbursed to them unless and until they have addressed the anomalies that are raised by this Committee. Parliament will start having teeth. Parliament will remain as one. As it is, many members of the public think that we have no teeth to bite, and that we just come here to take the money and go home. Mathare Hospital houses people of different dispositions, but that does not give them an excuse for not following the Public Finance Management Act and other relevant Acts. For those whose funds were disbursed but did not utilise them or return them to the National Treasury, there can be no other way. I urge this Committee and the Committee on Implementation to prevail upon the Semi-Autonomous Government Agencies (SAGAs) to return the money. If they do not, interest should accrue from the day they were supposed to return the funds, but did not do so. The principal amount plus the accrued interest should be netted off for any future disbursement. Those responsible should hence be prosecuted as the law requires. With those remarks, I support the Report."
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