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    "id": 1507454,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kikuyu, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Kimani Ichung’wah",
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    "content": " Hon. Deputy Speaker, I never meant to say lawyers are not truthful. As you have said, and Hon. TJ agrees with you, for a lawyer, one plus one can be anything. But for an accountant, one plus one must be two and it cannot be anything else. To safeguard public interest and resources, we cannot have professions where one plus one does not add up to two. The people we entrust with public resources must be truthful. If you subtract, the eventual answer must add up without meandering and without excuses as to why the result is not what it ought to be. I say that with tremendous respect for your profession. In the profession of accountants, that is the way it is. That is why many of us are unable to tell lies or say things that are not factual, truthful or accurate. We remain faithful to figures and facts as they are. Clause 5 of the Bill seeks to amend Section 7 of the Act on the functions and powers of the Auditor-General to provide for an additional function, which is to satisfy himself or herself that public resources have been applied or used economically and provide value for money. Public resources are to be applied efficiently and effectively in a transparent and sustainable manner. There has been a gap in our laws. The Office of the Auditor-General audits how money is applied, but they do not look at the effectiveness of how the public resources are utilised, and how transparent and sustainable those resources have been applied. I do not want to consider this Bill clause by clause. All the provisions in this Bill align with all the issues that the court, through Justice Mwita, found to be unconstitutional. Clause 9 clarifies the role of the Audit Advisory Board in the development of the organisational structure of the Office of the Auditor-General. The provision cures the problem in the provision that provided that an organisational structure was to be considered and approved by the Audit Advisory Board. That has been clarified and the role of the Board is now clear."
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