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    "id": 226137,
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    "speaker_name": "Mr. Muturi",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Justin Bedan Njoka Muturi",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir. Luckily, the Government side has woken up. It is good that they keep awake. I was saying that there have been a lot of delays in communications from the office of the Attorney-General to various Ministries regarding situations where the Government is sued. In this Report, there is a serious indictment on Treasury itself in the way in which they treat several contingencies funds. Contingency Funds are emergency funds but the way Treasury has operated is that they advance Ministries from a normal basis, funds from that account. Indeed, in some situations, because it has to be done so casually, you find that some of the Ministries who have been advanced money from the Civil Contingencies Fund end up surrendering part of it back to Treasury. That is an unacceptable situation. The other indictment that has been there is that, several Ministries did not present there accounts for audit. I am raising this issue, even though the Report we are discussing is for 1999/2000, of course we now have the largest Government since Independence, therefore, the problem that has been identified here by the Controller and Auditor-General regarding how many Ministries submit their reports for audit is a real one. Some of those Ministries like the Ministry of Information and Communications and the Ministry of Transport which have been mentioned on Page 13 of this Report, just in case somebody thinks that we are making spurious allegations, the Ministries said that their statements had not been prepared and could not, therefore, be submitted for audit."
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