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    "id": 420196,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/420196/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Ababu",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 108,
        "legal_name": "Ababu Tawfiq Pius Namwamba",
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    "content": "Budget and Appropriations Committee and the Treasury to consider very seriously, providing extra budgetary support to the Office of the Auditor-General so that they can hire more staff and expand their capacity to be able to work more effectively and fulfill this mandate. (ii) We are also reiterating the commitment of the Public Accounts Committee to work extra time, including during recess and even during weekends, to be able to be up to date as soon as reports reach us from the Office of the Auditor-General. We have scheduled an extra-ordinary tripartite forum between PAC, Office of the Auditor-General and Treasury alongside all the accounting officers who are the Principal Secretaries. The purpose of that forum is to discuss the implications of Article 229(4) of the Constitution and arrive at a very specific and clear way forward on how to live within the provision of that Article. We do believe that together, we should be able to chart an appropriate way forward. Let me just repeat this stern warning from PAC to all accounting officers on delays, shoddy and un-convincing responses to audit queries that occasion un-necessary delays. PAC has noted with a lot of concern that it takes an inordinate time for accounting officers to respond to audit queries raised by the Auditor- General. Often, accounting officers wait until they appear before PAC to start scrambling to provide clarifications to the Auditor-General. PAC will not accept that and all accounting officers better be warned that they must utilize the three month period from the end of the financial year to make sure that they provide all the required information, data and supporting documentation to the Auditor-General. We shall not accept any information or documentation submitted outside the three month window after the closure of the financial year."
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