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    "id": 683539,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/683539/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Keynan",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 41,
        "legal_name": "Adan Wehliye Keynan",
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    "content": "Ms. Catherine Namuye the then Accounting Officer violated Section 7 to Section 72 of the PFM Act, 2012 by allowing Mr. Bruce Odhiambo unfettered use of Government facilities. You could see the conspiracy between the CEO and the Chair. The Chairman was given all the privileges of an Accounting Officer or an executive chairman. This is a clear illustration that the then Chairman and Acting Chief Executive Officer (CEO) had issues that were of interest to them and eventually this led to the loss of hundreds of millions of shillings. Catherine Namuye, knowingly, engaged herself in improper conduct as defined in Section 74(4) of the Public Finance Management (PFM) Act, 2012 by making transactions that were unlawful and unauthorised. Therefore, as the CEO, she was obligated to comply with the provisions of the PFM Act, the Constitution and any other law as an Accounting Officer. This is not what she did. There was already an Information and Communication Technology (ICT) strategy that was developed by the board. The sole responsibility rested with the Accounting Officer, Ms. Namuye, to report to the parent Ministry on the execution of some of these programmes. This did not happen. None of the alternate directors from the key Ministries had any information other than to say that this was an issue that was done behind their back. We learned that there was a professional alternate director from the Treasury who had been representing the Principal Secretary (PS) of the National Treasury in this board for over seven years. This person had never reported some of these weird transactions either to the Ministry or to any other Government agency. The only conclusion was that the alternate director must have been part of the scam or he was silenced. Silencing can be done either through inducement or other means. The other conclusion would be that the fellow was so inept that he did not know some of his core functions. The documents tabled by Quorandum Limited and Chase Bank were forged. You could see different signatures, invoices and Local Purchase Orders (LPOs) all alluding to one particular"
}