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    "id": 520316,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Ganya",
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        "legal_name": "Francis Chachu Ganya",
        "slug": "francis-ganya"
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    "content": "recommendations and they are not honoured by the Chief Accounting Officers in the Ministries. If people have been surcharged, they should honour that. If they are to refund funds to the Treasury, they must do so in a timely manner. If there is need for further investigation to cases of corruption that have been unearthed, it must be done on timely manner. It must be done within a certain well established timeframe and all disciplinary measures that have been recommended must be implemented to the fullest. There is a lot of secrecy always when it comes to the Office of the President or the Ministry of Interior and Co-ordination of National Government. Most of the time, billions of shillings are not accounted for. You are always told funds are used in security matters and they use many other funny phrases. A mechanism must be found so that we are able to know what is being done with those resources. It might not be made public in the interest of national security, but I think watchdog committees like PAC should be able to have those details on behalf of the Kenyan people. I am really surprised that there are some funds that have been utilized by Ministries without the approval of Parliament. That is a crime in any democracy. It is a must for Ministries to get parliamentary approval for them to utilize funds. In cases where this has been established, I really hope that necessary disciplinary action will be taken so that this will not be a precedent that others are going to use in future and basically refuse to adhere to the requirements of our Constitution. It is really sad that PAC of late has been in the media for no good reason, rather for bad reasons. We do not know the truth but I really hope these issues will come out clearly because this is a very important committee; it is the supreme watchdog Committee of this august House and for the Kenyan people. If people do not have faith in the Committee, then basically our oversight role as Parliament has really been reduced and our image tarnished. I do hope these issues will be sorted out as soon as possible. It is good for the integrity of Parliament, PAC and all parliamentarians. With those few remarks, I support the Report."
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