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    "id": 683876,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Bunyasi",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "John Sakwa Bunyasi",
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    "content": "It is extremely important that we should take this to a higher notch. When a MDA is unable to account for funds, the only conclusion we can come to and there is no other conclusion is that the funds are lost. If one pretends that they are not lost or that they were not even lost, we do not know that they were not lost at the point of entry. There is no reason why they should be unable to account for the money 18 months down the road. This Report clearly indicates that there are many such areas where attention to detail and the critical element of the expenditure are not being paid. The reports are being made available increasingly later than it should be the case. There was a time when the Committee itself was unable to go through those reports in time and we had a back-log of several years. We are now running at a year or a year and a half of back-log. Part of the reason is the ability of the Office of the Auditor-General to provide those reports in the time-frame that is required. One way of looking at it is that this is a loud cry by the Office of the Auditor-General that it has inadequate capacity to look at those reports with the vigour that they require in the expected timeline. I hope Parliament will respond to this cry. On one hand, we cannot demand that there are serious issues of accountability at the central Government and in the counties. At the same time, we cannot deny the Office of the Auditor-General resources to give us those reports with the depths and vigour we expect from that Office. It is only through the review of the Office of the Auditor-General that the executive bosses are able to know what is going on in their departments. If I was the President of this country, I would be eager to have a very strong Office of the Auditor-General because as The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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