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    "id": 40006,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/40006/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Raila",
    "speaker_title": "The Prime Minister",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 195,
        "legal_name": "Raila Amolo Odinga",
        "slug": "raila-odinga"
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    "content": "Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, for some time, since 2009, our development partners have raised concerns about suspected fraud at KESSEP. It now turns out that close to Kshs4.2 billion may have been lost in just four years in the education sector project. A very large number of officials was involved in several irregular activities such as making payments without supporting documents, irregular banking practices, improper withdrawals under imprests and facilitation payments. Moreover, in many cases, single individuals irregularly received millions of shillings, some up to Kshs10 million as inputs. It is even more painful because, according to the audit report, there was limited co-operation by Ministry of Education staff, particularly those in the Accounts Department. This reflected a deliberate attempt to limit the potential for the audit to uncover accounting operations, unethical behaviour or inappropriate spending. This is dreadful! Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, equally troubling is the fact that, for very many years, those unscrupulous behaviours went un-detected. Those problems should have been uncovered by a spot-check of ongoing operations. This is the task of an internal auditor within the Ministry concerned. It took the Internal Audit Department of the"
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