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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kangema, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Peter Kihungi",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Deputy Speaker. I rise to speak on the Audit Report of the Public Investments Committee. As one Member has put it, the most important thing is timelines. I have noticed that the Office of the Auditor-General is coming out clearly as stamping its authority in the institutions. It is clear that the office is working. Parliament is its backbone because we consider their reports. However, committees take too long before they discuss those reports. Secondly, no action is taken. I remember one report by the Committee which recommended that one of our Members be imprisoned for 70 years. The report demonstrated to the National Assembly how the Office of the Auditor-General can execute the fight against corruption. Hon. Deputy Speaker, we wish to support the Report. We call upon committees to understand that the office of the Auditor-General will be demoralised when they realise that even if they become aggressive and fight corruption, Parliament does not act on their reports. The county will suffer. I call upon the oversight committees to take their positions. Let us be seen working. Reports that are brought here are clean, but the news in newspapers is that there is glaring corruption according to the Auditor-General reports. Parliament is somehow seen as compromised. The one big issue is timeline. A committee could be auditing a 2017 report and 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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