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    "content": "In the case of the lawyer to the Government, the Attorney-General of the Republic has not won even a single case. If anything, the Government keeps losing money year in, year out. They do not make appearance; they do not involve the accounting officers, they just do their own things. I think it is high time that the PAC needs to institute a very special audit on the performance of the Office of the Attorney-General in terms of being an advisor to the Government and value for money so that the Attorney-General of the Republic can do a good job. Just the other day, before we went on Recess, we gave the Attorney-General a huge pay rise for basically doing a shoddy job. It is that serious because this matter has been in our books year in, year out. The backlog has made the PAC to look at the kind of who has stolen what and who has not; how much you got for a biro, pencil or rubber. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, when you are looking at competitive bidding, the procurement process in the Government, the tender process, you would expect the tender process to give you the lowest price for the best commodity. Unfortunately, in Government, the tender process has been used to pay more than the correct value, even at the market place. You can even walk to Nakumatt Supermarket and you look at the price of an item. But when the Government tenders, it will be double. It defeats the whole process why we are tendering! So, I would urge my friends in the Committee to look at this issue more critically."
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