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    "id": 1464482,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Wundanyi, WDM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Danson Mwashako",
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    "content": "As I finish, there is something called materiality in accounting. The auditors sent to audit NG-CDF come to constituency offices and harass everybody there. They pursue… Nowadays they do not do sampling, they visit all projects which is a good thing. I really support that. When they come to the constituency they visit all projects. Initially they used to do sampling, but now when they go out there to look at what happened in the previous years that they are auditing, they forget something very crucial called materiality in the county. Materiality in auditing means a situation where an auditor only looks at something that will cause your report not to meet the threshold. They come to the constituencies and go to a classroom and start saying, “this paint is not good paint” and yet the classroom was done two years ago. How could you know that a paint that was done two years ago was not good? I want to speak to the Auditor-General and say that they also need to be serious when they come to audit NG-CDF. They should also put a disclaimer in their reports that, Members of Parliament are not involved in the running and managing of day-to-day and any financial activities in NG- CDF. This is because, what has been happening is that a report is leaked to the public, someone picks it maliciously and publicly..."
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