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    "id": 683467,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/683467/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Ochieng",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 2955,
        "legal_name": "David Ouma Ochieng'",
        "slug": "david-ouma-ochieng"
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    "content": "At a time when this country is barely struggling to keep children in school, to have medicine in hospitals and a huge wage Bill, we are having money being spent helter-skelter without us knowing where the money is going. As we look at these accounts, one of the things I have noted here is the incapacity or inability of the Kenya Revenue Authority to seal loopholes of corruption. If money is collected, the way we should do it--- Under the coalition Government and the Kibaki Government, we saw our revenue go up by two-fold or three-fold because the Kenya Revenue Authority (KRA), then under Mr. Waweru, was doing so well, sealing loopholes and collecting money that was due. We did not see so much corruption going on at KRA. But now, what is going on at KRA can only be described as a tragedy to the country. There is something called IFMIS. It has become the scapegoat for every mal-administration and malpractice in terms of financial management in this country. All of it is blamed on IFMIS. IFMIS is a system that was introduced to help mainstream and streamline the way Government monies are approved and spent. It is becoming increasingly clear to us every day that IFMIS has failed tremendously. I request the Cabinet Secretary for the National Treasury that if IFMIS is not working, and if it is not the system we need to streamline resource management in this country, then we better move on to a system that will help this country save in resources, save time in Government transactions and, above all, avoid loopholes. IFMIS was supposed to weed out corruption. In the Eurobond, National Youth Service (NYS) and Anglo- leasing scandals, we used IFMIS to effect the payments. Why use IFMIS if it cannot be used to detect corruption, malpractices and pilferage of public resources? IFMIS, in my opinion, has failed and the use of the same must be re-checked to ensure that the original purpose for installing IFMIS is met. The coordination and implementation of Government expenditure is very important. We are now in our fourth year. No one knows how this Government is structured. No one knows how Uhuru Kenyatta’s Government works. No one today knows what the functions and role of the Ministry of Industrialisation are, who is in charge of trade negotiations, who is in charge of the East African Community (EAC) affairs and who is in charge of economic affairs. No one can"
}