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    "id": 420834,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/420834/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Ng’ongo",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 110,
        "legal_name": "John Mbadi Ng'ong'o",
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    "content": "By asking this House in 2014 to adopt reports of up to June 2010, it is a clear reflection that a lot still needs to be done. As you rightly put it, Article 229 of the Constitution speaks to the Auditor-General having six months from the end of a financial year. Within those six months, the accounting officers have three months, from 1st July to 30th September, to prepare accounting reports to be submitted to the Auditor-General for audit and thereafter, for subsequent submission to Parliament, which we need to receive immediately after December. I would only urge accounting officers to be fast enough with their accounting records, to make sure that the Auditor-General is seized of these records in good time to prepare the audit report by December, so that Parliament is seized of these reports by January each year to avoid the kind of backlog that we have. Right now, we still have Reports for 2010/2011, 2011/2012 and 2012/2013. These are financial years that have been concluded and this House has not been able to finish going through these reports to table them in Parliament. This is partly because of the delay from various accounting officers to answer to audit queries and also partly due to delay from the Auditor-General."
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