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    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Ms.) Mbalu",
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        "legal_name": "Jessica N. Mbalu",
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    "content": "Thank you, hon. Speaker, for giving me the opportunity to add my voice to the debate on the Report of PAC, in which I sit. I would like to start by thanking the Chairman of the PAC, hon. Ababu Namwamba, who has done a very good job. I do not speak for the sake of speaking, I speak because it is important to speak the truth. If you look at this Report, you will appreciate that it covers three financial years. For those who listen and read the HANSARD, this is a Report of the Appropriation Accounts, Other Public Accounts and Accounts for the Funds of the Government of Kenya for Financial Years 2010/2011, 2011/2012 and 2012/2013, which was laid on the Table of the House on Tuesday, 2nd December, 2014. This is a great achievement by the Committee. It will go into the books of history that the PAC of the Eleventh Parliament has been able to clear the backlog. We will now be dealing with current issues. For us, this is a great achievement. Hon. Speaker, the information that has been leaked out is not part of the information of this House. We were about to brand the Eleventh Parliament in a very bad way because of rumours and vendetta. There is no Committee Chair or Member of a Committee of this House who would want to come here and discuss information which has been leaked out, unless we are mad. There is nobody who would want to table in this House or discuss what he has already given the public. Doing so reduces our confidence. We want to make this House a Parliament of the people represented by hon. Members. We also respect the PAC. I must say that we have very able Members. We went through the audit reports and called the Accounting Officers of the various Ministries, who gave us the information that we wanted. One of the pertinent issues that the Government needs to look into is lack of supporting documents. We made our recommendations and raised our concerns with the Ministries. Hon. Speaker, this is a Committee we need to support. I want to urge all hon. Members and members of the public to read this voluminous Report, which is for one financial year. It is very heavy. Sometimes we discuss issues without bothering to look at the details of these Reports. We had issues of unsupported payments. Trial balances were 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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