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    "speaker_name": "Mr. Speaker",
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    "content": "Yes, the Chairman of the Departmental Committee on Defence and Foreign Relations. That report will have been prepared pursuant to the Public Audit Act which is Act No.12 of 2003. That Act and its operations fall under the ambit of the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Finance. By the provisions of Section 10 and 11 as read together with Section 26 of the Public Audit Act, you are expected to have been seized of this report within seven days after it was prepared. There is an allegation here by Mr. Keynan that it was prepared on 11th January, 2011. The report, itself, from what I see, has no exact date in the sense that it does not have the date when it was prepared in January. But it has a date which says January 2011. Now, pursuant to Section 26 which I have alluded to, and I want to read it out so that all hon. Members know, it provides as follows:- Section 26(1) reads: “If in the course of an examination and an audit, a matter comes to the attention of the Controller and Auditor-General that he feels should be brought to the attention of the National Assembly immediately, the Controller and Auditor-General shall submit a special report to the Minister responsible for finance. (2) The Minister shall lay the special report before the National Assembly not later than seven days after the National Assembly first meets after the Minister has received the report. (3) If the Minister fails to lay the special report before the National Assembly as required under this section, the Controller and Auditor-General shall forthwith submit a copy of the report to the Speaker of the National Assembly to be presented by him to the National Assembly.” So, with respect to sub-section 3, I can confirm that I have not, in the month of January or any time later, been served with this report by the Controller and Auditor- General. I have further checked with the Office of the Clerk and he has confirmed to me that his Office has not been served with any such report. That, therefore, Minister, except as you will now explain, leaves the report in your office."
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