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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Rop",
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        "legal_name": "Jackson Kipkorir Rop",
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    "content": "Thank you, hon. Speaker, for giving me this opportunity to contribute to this Motion. Being a Member of this Committee, I want to say on the outset that as a general observation of the report, accounting officers have been questioned for not being responsive to management letters, which are given to them in time. As a result of that, we are getting these issues, which have been raised by several of us on the pending bills, which are really enormous in most Ministries. The Ministry of Transport and Infrastructure, in this Report, is leading with a whopping over Kshs.10.1 billion that was attributed to failure by donors to release funds on time and late Exchequer releases. These are issues that the Chair and the Committee have not taken lightly. We have instructed the accounting officers to be very keen on this, so that we do not get reports of the same nature appearing year in, year out. When we will be doing the Financial Year 2010/2011, we will find that all the issues which were raised in the previous years, will recur. We want to instruct the accounting officers that they should operate within the new Constitution. It is now a constitutional requirement under Article 229, that auditors must, within six months, table their reports before the Committee, so that it is able to The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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