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    "id": 1460038,
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    "speaker_name": "Dagoretti North, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Beatrice Elachi",
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    "content": "The other issue that the Report brings out now is remuneration of senior officers. Why can they not just follow what Parliament does? You can never be given two imprests. If you have not spent one imprest, you have to refund it and so it is very simple. The law must just be clear to every department of Government. If you are an officer and you are given money that is not yours, then just refund it. We do not even need to remind you. One thing we must also try and bring the Exchequer to agree on, which is also a challenge in National Government Constituencies Development Fund (NG-CDF), is releasing resources from the Exchequer. Every audit report in Kenya, even your own NG-CDF, will have that question and yet, it is not your mistake or that of the fund manager of the board. The mistake is just simple. The money was never released on time from the Exchequer and, therefore, you will find a challenge when you now start doing your audits. So, we have to be very clear. We need to remove it and call the Auditor-General and say if it is money that was never released from the Exchequer, let the audit report not question. Just say money was not released on time. That is so that we also come out of these reports of the Auditor-General. When you look at some of the issues in the reports, you wonder that this could have just been an issue that would have been done within before the reports are unveiled. It is an issue that is not necessary because in the next slide, you find they are saying, when the money was released, you did the things you were supposed to do. So, that is one thing that is very clear."
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