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    "id": 683483,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Wandayi",
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        "legal_name": "James Opiyo Wandayi",
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    "content": "Thank you, Hon. Speaker for this opportunity so that I can also contribute to this Motion on the Report of the PAC on Government Accounts for the 2013/2014 Financial Year. Hon. Speaker, I will largely associate myself with the sentiments already expressed by my colleagues. As I say so, it is instructive that we are actually debating the PAC Report on Government Accounts for the 2013/2014 Financial Year in August, 2016. I must thank the Committee and the Chairman for the good work they have done. However, something needs to be done if we are to be seen to be serious. If it is a matter of building the capacity in the Office of the Auditor-General, it has to be done. We should carry out these audits on time and submit the audit reports to the House to enable the PAC to also work on time. We should not end up doing what is actually referred to as “postmortem”. I have read this Report very keenly. One thing that is very interesting is that this Report is like any other report by the PAC on the Government accounts for any other year that we have read in the past. This Report catalogues a litany of misappropriations and embezzlement of funds. In fact, it outlines outright theft of public money. I am saying this because if we remove the actual dates of this Report and superimpose other dates, it would be the same thing. This Report talks about theft of public funds with impunity. There has been talk by most of my colleagues that there is a problem with the IFMIS and that, perhaps, the system has failed. I beg to disagree with that notion. No system, be it financial or otherwise, is ever foolproof. The IFMIS is no exception. What is happening, like has happened in the past, is that people are manipulating the IFMIS so that they can siphon out funds from public coffers."
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