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    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Dr.) Pukose",
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        "legal_name": "Robert Pukose",
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    "content": "Thank you, hon. Speaker, for allowing me to contribute to the adoption of reports of PAC as presented. Indeed, we are talking of the Appropriation Accounts, other public accounts and the accounts for the funds of the Government of Kenya for the Financial Years 2010/2011, 2011/2012 and 2012/2013 which were laid in this House last year - 2nd December, 2014. As you see, one, I want to commend and congratulate the Committee led by hon. Ababu for burning the midnight oil to make those three reports that they presented. Whenever we present reports on the accounts, it has an effect in terms of the amount of money that we will appropriate for the financial year. Our Constitution states that it must be the latest audited accounts. Therefore, when we delay, it affects the amount of money that will be budgeted for the next financial year. For now, we are even debating the accounts for the Financial Year 2012/2013, as being the last audited accounts, when we have Financial Years 2013/2014 and 2014/2015 – the two financial years that will greatly affect whatever is going to be appropriated for this financial year. I would urge the Committee to move with speed and present the other reports. That will make it easier for us to make audited accounts and present them for the preparation of the Budget for the next financial year. I hope that in this coming year, the Committee will address the issue of timeliness especially when it comes to auditing of the reports. When we are talking about the Report of 2010/2011, those are many years. One of the key things about the human mind is that forgetting is also part of our cycle and part of our health. Whenever we come up with the audited reports then, maybe, even the people who are in office at that time might not be there to account for whatever happened. We make officers who are newly recruited, without proper memory of the 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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