{"id":421006,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/421006/?format=json","text_counter":406,"type":"speech","speaker_name":"Hon. (Eng.) Gumbo","speaker_title":"","speaker":{"id":24,"legal_name":"Nicholas Gumbo","slug":"nicholas-gumbo"},"content":"Thank you, hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker for giving me this opportunity to contribute to these Reports. As I contribute, I must indeed, sympathize with the work of Auditor-General because what you get from this Report is a do-not-care attitude of the accounting officers, which is really frustrating public accounting in this country. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, this House has been granted a lot of powers by the Constitution. I think it is time we started wielding the big stick. When you look at the cases of under-expenditure and under-collection of Appropriations–in-Aid, they indicate laxity. I think we have talked about the provisions of the Constitution that give us power. 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."}