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    "id": 560880,
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    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Eng.) Gumbo",
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        "legal_name": "Nicholas Gumbo",
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    "content": "Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, of course I appreciate what the House has done this afternoon, but I am still of the opinion that it was not in vain that the Constitution, under Article 252, provided for commissions and independent offices to be in charge of recruiting their own staff. I think we, as a House today, seem to be legislating at cross- purposes because in this very same House we have given the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) the powers to recruit their own staff, our own Parliamentary Service Commission recruits their own staff and I do not see any merit whatsoever for the Auditor-General to be subjected to the Public Service Commission in recruiting their own staff. I am also concerned that one of the principal auditee that the Auditor-General looks at, who is the Cabinet Secretary in charge of Finance, is being given the task of preparing regulations. In my humble view and I have said it before, this is a major conflict. The Auditor-General should be allowed so that we reinforce the independence of that office. The Auditor-General should be allowed to prepare regulations governing their own work which shall be approved by this House. I oppose."
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