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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Omulele",
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        "legal_name": "Christopher Omulele",
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    "content": "are applied in ways that are inimical to the environment that we live in. So, it is very important that we now have an auditor who will have the capacity to conduct environment audit. I have had the benefit of hearing some of the speakers before me questioning the Auditor-General’s capacity to be able to conduct this kind of audit. I would like to sway them away from that kind of thought by asking them to look at the provisions that have been set out in this Bill; the Auditor-General is allowed, expressly, to carry out his role and receive professional advice from people who have capacity in this area. So, it is not the Auditor-General himself who will be required to carry out environmental assessment. He has the capacity and this Bill actually allows him to employ professionals with capabilities to carry out that kind of assessment. In the proposed Clause 33 the Auditor-General is allowed to carry out pre- emptive, proactive and preventive deterrent audit on flawed and corrupt practices. This is very progressive because we have had a situation where the Auditor-General has been more of a mortician, as my friends have previously said. We are saying that we are giving the Auditor-General capacity, so that where he suspects that something wrong or corrupt is being done he can take pre-emptive action and carry out an audit for the benefit of our nation. I think this is a very good Bill. I have also had the benefit of hearing my colleagues sound out the provisions of the proposed Clause 40 of this Bill. This is in respect of the audit of national security organs."
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