{"id":622835,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/622835/?format=json","text_counter":256,"type":"speech","speaker_name":"Hon. Manje","speaker_title":"","speaker":{"id":1669,"legal_name":"Joseph Wathigo Manje","slug":"joseph-wathigo-manje"},"content":"I also envisage a situation where our Accounting Officers are to some extent permanent in their accounting areas. If the Controller of Budget approves withdrawal by a certain Principal Secretary and then within a short period that Principal Secretary is transferred to another department or Ministry, it becomes a bit difficult to try to trace where the expenditure was. This defeats the logic why the money was to be channelled to a particular Ministry."}