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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Ganya",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Francis Chachu Ganya",
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    "content": "Thank you, hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, for giving me the opportunity to contribute to this Report. From the outset, I really want to commend hon. Members of the PAC of the Eleventh Parliament for working so hard to ensure our audits are now timely. Doing three accounts from three financial years within a span of two years is not a small achievement. I served in this Committee in the Tenth Parliament for the first Session of the Eleventh Parliament for six years. I know how hard it is to work overnight to ensure that we have very timely audited accounts. In our Constitution, when we are doing division of revenues between the county government and the national Government, that division is based on the most current audited PAC Report. Because of the timeliness of this audit now, it means that our counties should be able to get more money than ever before because the data that would be used is the one of the recently audited financial year which is now basically the last financial year and for this I want to appreciate the good work of the Committee. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, when you have a timely audit, it really helps in management and it enables us look at issues that we have to enable us sort them out. In the past and from my own experience, in the 10th Parliament when I served in this Committee, we were auditing accounts for like eight or nine years ago. Those who were in that Committee some have already died, others are no longer in office while a few have left the country, hence you cannot really have proper audit to keep officers accountable for what they did. It is very difficult when it is not current because that will mean the Principal Secretaries and Cabinet Secretaries who are in office now are the ones who are going to answer questions. It is current report and audit and they cannot say they were not in office or that they just inherited bad records. With the current trend, we will be able to deal with issues of mismanagement on a timely manner and it will not be historical data. It is current data which helps people or public officers to be very careful and be custodians of the resources bestowed on them by the Kenyan people. I really hope that the recommendations in this Report will be implemented. I urge the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) to demand the implementation of the recommendations before they actually sit with any of those Ministries in the new financial year. Otherwise, it is a joke for them to do all these 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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