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    "content": "as audited by the Auditor-General up to date. This is unprecedented and when history of this Parliament is written, it shall be recorded that PAC of 11th Parliament cleared in one calendar year accounts for five years and not three years. I need to set that record straight. When this particular Committee was appointed by this House which was actually late, way deep into the month of May, 2013, we found that the last accounts approved by the National Assembly were for the Financial Year 2007/2008. Even though the previous Committee had done some work on the accounts for 2008/2009/2010, that work had not been concluded and were yet to be submitted to this House. The first order of business for PAC was to ensure that the accounts for 2008/2009/2010 were tabled before this House, debated and adopted and indeed, records will bear me right that, in March 2014, I did table before this House double reports, being accounts for 2008/2009 and 2009/2010. This House, recognizing the urgency and the importance of clearing that backlog, gave priority to those two reports which we debated here and adopted. The Committee then turned attention to three years; 2010/2011, 2011/2012 and 2012/2013 which are the three Reports we are adopting today. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) took the unprecedented decision that in view of the implications of Article 203(3) of the Constitution--- For the record, allow me to read it. Article 203(2)(3) provides that: “203 (2) For every financial year, the equitable share of the revenue raised nationally that is allocated to county governments shall be not less than fifteen per cent of all revenue collected by the national government."
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