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    "id": 316731,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Dr. Eseli",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "David Eseli Simiyu",
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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, while I agree that it was good to have an audit report, I would still insist that this audit report was not properly before the Committee. This was a special audit report and the Public Audit Act, Article 42, states special audit reports shall be brought into the House by the Minister, and if he is not able to, they should go to the Speaker who will then table them in the House. Even if we were to say that the report was properly before the Committee, it is so fatally flawed that they could have relied on it, because the Act says that on examination under this section, the Auditor-General may not question the merits of a policy objectives of the Government, a state corporation or local authority. Unfortunately, this audit report questions the Government’s policy on the joint venture. So, that makes it fatally flawed. So, the Committee cannot rely on it. It should have been tabled in the House first, but it was not. Secondly, the Auditor-General has over-stepped its mandate by questioning Government policy when he is not supposed to do that. So, this makes the report fatally flawed and it cannot be relied on. Finally, there is an issue about obsolete machinery. I have looked through this voluminous Report, and I am yet to see a report from any engineer who said that those machines are obsolete."
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