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    "id": 1550058,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Garissa Township, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Dekow Mohamed",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker, for giving me this opportunity. I also congratulate the team that has come up with this Report. Year-in, year-out, we get these reports. Even before I came to Parliament, the Auditor- General had been producing these reports, which are tabled in the House. But it seems that nothing has been happening in terms of implementing the Committee’s recommendations and observations. It would be very unfair for the team of Hon. Tindi Mwale to have sittings up to the wee hours of the night preparing such a beautiful document, only for it not to be implemented by the concerned public agencies. This country is not short of learned people. It is unfortunate that today we are talking about accounting officers who are not adhering to the set standards. It is not that they do not know. In my opinion, they deliberately ignore the standards, both in their professional bodies and in Parliament. It is, therefore, important that as we adopt these reports, we have a follow-up mechanism on implementation. The Report we are discussing today is for Financial Year 2021/2022. We are now in 2025. We are already late by three years. It will even be difficult to follow up the matters raised with the institutional memory because accounting officers might have left their places of work. We have been told by the Chairman that the Auditor-General does not get adequate support in terms of the documentations they require from accounting officers of MDAs. The Vice-Chairman has said that accounting officers are always available during the budget-making process, but whenever they are asked to submit documents or appear before the Committee to clarify certain information, they disappear. That is deliberate. My suggestion is that the Report should be shared with Departmental Committees dealing with audit queries. We should tell the accounting officers of those MDAs that there will be no allocation of funds until they clear the audit queries with the Auditor-General. That way, they will wake up, be on their feet and follow-up on these reports. The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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