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    "id": 226634,
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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, for giving me this opportunity to say a few words about this Report of the PAC on the Government of Kenya Accounts for the year 1999/2000 as laid by the Committee. Even a very casual reading of the various recommendations by the PAC will clearly show that, again, like the ones for the previous year, the same malpractices and shortcomings within Government Ministries are being highlighted. This is a matter that the House now must deal with and with finality so that we can minimise cases or instances of waste of public resources. A lot of what has been recommended by the Committee and which I believe this House will unanimously adopt, is corrective action to be taken by particular Government agencies. In cases where a particular officer or particular officers of Government have been shown to have worked in a manner that showed them to be inadequate in their positions; or to have abused their office or to have committed crime, the Committee recommends investigations, either by the Director of Criminal Investigations (DCI), the Director of the Kenya Anti-Corruption Commission or such like other investigative arms of Government. This is with a view to eventually preferring charges against the culprits. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I want to echo the sentiments expressed by Mr. Raila that, indeed, as a House, we must express ourselves quite strongly on the conduct of the Attorney- General. Year in, year out, recommendations that action be taken or investigations be carried against thieves and where appropriate criminal charges or appropriate charges be preferred, have fallen apparently, on deaf ears. Indeed, I do not know whether I would be right to also say that they have fallen on smiling Wako. The gentleman just sits here and smiles. He will never take the House seriously, even for a single day. Then we must ask ourselves as a House; are we acting in vain? Why should we spend so much public resources, receiving evidence from the Report of the Controller and Auditor-General on the accounts of various Government departments and Ministries, where malpractices have been identified, action has been recommended and adopted by the House, but no action is taken by the Executive arm. This is so, particularly, by the investigative and prosecuting arms. I raise this point because had those two branches of the Government been working, indeed, as we discuss this Report now, we should be seeing a Treasury memorandum showing how previous reports have been implemented. We need to know how many people have been taken to court and whether investigations were carried out. If, indeed, that happened, we need to know what the results were so that both the Controller and Auditor-General---"
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