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    "id": 1393173,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1393173/?format=api",
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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 to thank the Committee for the work they have done. The Report is looking at 2017/2018, 2018/2019, 2019/2020 and 2020/2021 financial years, and I think this is why our country is always in a crisis. As we bring the Reports to the House or when the Auditor-General is going through them, time has definitely lapsed. Many things were wrongfully done at that time and you do even know where the institutions are at the moment. We are discussing those institutions in 2024 by looking at their audit reports and trying to look for support mechanisms that can rectify some of the queries raised by the Auditor-General. Hon. Temporary Speaker, if we want to move forward as a country, we must have a system where the Auditor-General has some semblance of the happenings in those institutions before fully auditing them. This will enable the Auditor-General to give us a summary of the institution at the time of audit. On the Competition Authority of Kenya, the Report states that the Authority is supposed to promote and protect effective competition in markets. It has a clear mandate in terms of promotion and enforcement of compliance in competition as per the Act. However, as part of their major achievements, they state that during the COVID19 period, they facilitated an investment of over Ksh140 billion into the national economy. Through reduction in the number of days taken to analyse the mergers, they also facilitated the implementation of Article 46 of the Constitution on consumer welfare by expediting an estimated Ksh12.4 million in consumer savings. They enhanced competition in the market, leading to among others, lower consumer prices. Why am I saying that the Auditor- General needs to help us? It is because they are telling us that everything was good but so far, those achievements have been overtaken by events. Things are more expensive. They claim to have facilitated the recovery of delayed payments, but we have since moved on. If we want to see the economy recover, there has to be a different way and mechanisms of dealing with this. The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor"
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