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    "speaker_name": "Mr. C. Onyancha",
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        "legal_name": "Charles Onyancha",
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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, it is crucial to prepare the accounts of the Government on time. I believe that this House has the capacity to force that action to be taken, especially if it was to take our recommendations seriously about staffing as well as about impressing a sense of responsibility on the Accounting Officers concerned. It is a shame that of all the reports we have looked at and previous Committees since Independence, all of them have been qualified. Qualified is the term used by accountants to mean that they have been found wanting. There is not a single year when the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) has found that a single Ministry has prepared its accounts well and in a timely manner. In the private sector, if a report is qualified even once, it is not accepted for tax assessment. The following year, the officers are dismissed. I hope that the Implementation and Compliance Committee will be taking such action in the near future."
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