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    "id": 1379458,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Dagoretti North, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Beatrice Elachi",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker. I rise to support this Report and appreciate the Committee for a job well done. The Auditor- General has just released her Report. She has challenged Parliament and the country. If we want to appreciate ourselves and come out of the risks that we are face arising from debt distress, we must deal with all the existing institutions. The Committee has observed that the budgets of certain public institutions are not known, and that those institutions do not even submit their books of accounts to the Auditor- General for audit. We have a serious loophole in terms of monies that are being spent. That is what the Auditor-General has talked about. As we carry out audits, it is necessary to see some of the projects on which money has been spent. She tried doing this by visiting 10 of them. When she went for public participation, she asked citizens about the projects. They told her that they had not seen them. For example, the Department of Refugee Services deals with refugees. They have donations and grants amounting to Ksh30 billion. The Government also supports them. However, they do not have a financial statement report that analyses how they spend the money. With corruption in this country, it is so easy for the Department to use the grants and mismanage the monies that are allocated to them. Therefore, the first thing we must do is to ask those institutions to prepare and submit their financial reports. As they do so, I wish the ministries that have been brought into question can also submit their audit reports to this House. As we make the Budget, this will make it easy. It will also ensure that Kenyans do not blame Parliament that we were given power to ensure that we divide the country’s purse equitably and yet, we have such scenarios where they believe we are not keen on itemising our Budget to know which money goes to certain projects."
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