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    "id": 1459940,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Navakholo, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Emmanuel Wangwe",
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    "content": "General for audit. In general, most of those organisations did not avail documentations to the Auditor-General. And what surprised the Committee is when the accounting officers purport to carry volumes of documents that they had not given out during the audit, which makes auditing difficult. We would, therefore, be recommending that organisations which did not give all the documentations to the Auditor-General at the time of audit should do the following: The accounting officers should comply with the provisions of Section 68(2) of the Public Finance Act of 2012 by submitting all the required information for audit within the stipulated time. Within two months upon the adoption of this Report, any accounting officer who fails to provide the required information for audit pursuant to Section 62.1 of the Public Audit Act, 2015, be prosecuted for the offence pursuant to the Public Audit Act of 2015. We, therefore, ask the Committee on Implementation to enforce the Public Audit, Act and especially, Section 62.1. Let the accounting officers abide by the provisions of Section 68.2 of the Public Audit Act of 2012. As a generality, we also observed delays in the appointment of the board of directors. We noted with concern that some State corporations were operating without a properly constituted board of directors. The anomaly was attributed to delays by the appointing authority to fill the vacancies once they arise. Two or three of the above five operated without the board of directors. That, in itself, would make an institution lack the corporate image that helps it to make decisions. Our recommendations are that within three months upon the adoption of this Repor"
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