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    "id": 545674,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/545674/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Nyamweya",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 391,
        "legal_name": "Manson Oyongo Nyamweya",
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    "content": "from the Ministry for Defence. What it means is that there is an officer who paid suppliers, retained the VAT due but did not remit the money to KRA. The question that one asks is: What happens in that office? What happens with the guys in the accounts department? What happens with the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) in that organisation? Why do they not demand that the funds be remitted to KRA? The worst body that we have in this regard is the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC), a body entrusted with presiding over our elections. It is a body which is supposed to work according to the guidelines, obey the rules and ensure that there is fairness. We are told that this organisation did not refund Kshs263 million in respect of VAT, which means that the suppliers were paid but VAT was not remitted to KRA. We want to know what measures the CEO took to discipline the officers who failed to remit VAT to KRA? I can see that the Budget and Appropriations Committee has approved this payment. Let them be paid but we need to know exactly why the money was not paid in the first place. That money must be remitted on a monthly basis, when it is due. It should not delay for even a single day. So, there is a challenge of indiscipline. The electoral body is not disciplined, in terms of managing public funds and remitting VAT to KRA. How can they ask for money when they were given the money? What happened is that suppliers were paid and, as a Government, the electoral body retained the VAT, which they were supposed to remit to KRA. However, they did not remit the money to KRA. That shows the level of indiscipline in financial management in as far as this organization is concerned. It clearly reflects how they are running the organization. Another issue is about funds which have been allocated to Treasury. There is something they call IFMIS licences for Kshs400 million. Just because you have given somebody a business he is going to do for many years to come, the Government is spending more money on IFMIS. How can they agree to spend Kshs400 million just for a mere renewal of a licence? They do nothing. Treasury says that they are getting more security on IFMIS. That is okay but the amount of money being allocated is a lot of money. Then there is another amount of Kshs80 million for hardware support."
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