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    "id": 143082,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Chachu",
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        "legal_name": "Francis Chachu Ganya",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir. I stand to support this Motion, the Public Accounts Committee Report on the Government of Kenya Financial Reports of the Year 2004/2005. As a Member of this Committee, I was involved in preparation of the Report. As Committee Members, we all, unanimously, agreed on the findings and the recommendations of this Report. We worked on the reports of two years concurrently, 2004/2005 as well as 2005/2006 under the able leadership of our Chairman, Dr. Khalwale. However, I would like to make some few observations about the Report. A number of times, the Accounting Officers were not able to provide supporting documents to the Controller and Auditor-General in time. Most of the times, there were inordinate delays in submitting this necessary documentation for accounting which suggests that maybe, they were cooking these documents or they had some reasons for not being efficient in their work. As we took evidence from the Accounting Officers, it was very obvious to Members that there was lack of adequate preparation by them, sometimes forcing us to wait even for a couple of days before they appeared before the Committee, instead of coming on the day they were scheduled to appear. In most of the years we looked at, there were pending bills. They kept on appearing from year to year. This could be due to poor budgeting, delays in payment, which really raise the suggestion that there could be some collusion which could lead to corruption in some of these Ministries. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I just want to look at two Ministries. The first one is the Ministry of Roads. It was very evident to us that there were inadequate feasibility studies and inadequate design preparations which could have contributed to unnecessary time extensions. The delays of the expensive projects necessitated price variations and unnecessary additional cost to the Kenyan taxpayer. For sure, we had fears of possible collusion between the officers responsible in the Ministries and the contractors, leading to misappropriation of public funds. We are talking about road"
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