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    "id": 509526,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Ababu",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Ababu Tawfiq Pius Namwamba",
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    "content": "Accordingly, the Committee wishes to commend all those Accounting Officers who took their work seriously, and to strongly rebuke and reprimand every Accounting Officer who did not. As a measure of the significance the Committee attaches to this matter, the Committee has resolved that starting with accounts of financial year 2013/2014, reports to this august House will be accompanied with a list of honour naming and commending top performing Accounting Officers in an order of merit, and another list of shame, naming and rebuking those who do not take their accounting duties seriously. The Committee also notes with grave concern the serious financial and human resource constraints in the Office of the Auditor-General, which has serious implications for the entire audit cycle as set out in Article 229 of the Constitution. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, unless these challenges are urgently addressed, in view of the increase in audit obligations occasioned by the demands of devolution, public funds will remain at great risk of misuse, misapplication and loss without detection. That is why we have repeatedly implored the Budget and Appropriations Committee,- I can see the Chairman of the Departmental Committee on Finance, Planning and Trade also in the House - to consistently increase the budget for the Office 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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