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    "id": 1526287,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Molo, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Kuria Kimani",
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    "content": ", the High Court held that Section 18 of the Public Audit Act providing for secondment of officers is unconstitutional. The court stated that secondment of staff and the terms of Section 18 of the Public Audit Act would be improper as it would lead to familiarity, it would undermine the independence of individual staff and interfere with institutional independence. Therefore, the section was declared unconstitutional. Because of the need for independence of the officers serving in the Office of the Auditor-General, it is important that such officers should not be on secondment. They should be employed to serve under the Office of the Auditor-General and not seconded from other areas. Let me give an example. Let us imagine an accountant who has served for many years at National Treasury being seconded to the Office of the Auditor-General. Will the officer be loyal to the Office of the Auditor-General or loyal to the office he came from? Therefore, there is a need to remove that secondment of officers to the Office of the Auditor-General."
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