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    "id": 420132,
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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Mulu",
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        "legal_name": "Benson Makali Mulu",
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    "content": "Thank you hon. Speaker. I rise to support the adoption of the Report which was presented by the Chair of the Public Accounts Committee yesterday. As I said yesterday when I got only a minute or two to speak, as I sat here and listened to the Chair present the Report, I kept on asking myself: How many times have Kenyans listened to these kinds of presentations? And any time a presentation is made, the same observations and recommendations are repeated. The question I ask is whether this House and Kenyans in general learn any lessons from these reports. Listening to the Report, three items were highlighted as the main challenges. There were pending bills, outstanding imprest and uncollected Appropriations-in- Aid (A-in-A). If you read the previous reports, the same issues keep on coming up every year. Despite the fact that these reports are being presented a bit late - because the House is actually discussing reports for 2008/2009 and 2009/2010 - I can for sure say that, if the year’s report was to be presented, the same three issues would, more likely, crop up. Let us take, for example, the issue of pending bills. In the two Reports we are discussing, it is reported that a total of Kshs16.3 billion is pending bills as per the last Report. That is implying that the accounting officers have not managed to pay the suppliers of goods and services. The question we ask ourselves as hon. Members of this House is: If you are a contractor or a supplier and you have already supplied your goods or services and you have not been paid to the tune of Kshs16.3 billion in total, is that not killing our local entrepreneurs, even if they are international?"
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