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    "content": "talking about you as an individual. I am talking about the Cabinet. You are just a good messenger. We want you to be on your toes and to co-operate for the sake of prosperity in this country. I also want o make an appeal to the Clerk of the National Assembly. The Clerk of the National Assembly will now have to remodel his thinking. He will have to think differently. He is used to inviting accounting officers to come and appear before us. He should be prepared to respond to immediate requests from us, for forensic audits, so that little things that I have been seeing happening in the Ministry of Water are dealt with and we put the House in order. There is one thing that hon. Members did not comment on, and which I would like to conclude on. It is the issue of imprests. The issue of imprests is extremely embarrassing in the sense that the Government financial regulations and procedures are very clear. Imprests must be surrendered 48 hours after the completion of the assignment for which the imprest was given or taken. However, when you visit all Ministries, you will find senior officers, Ministers, Assistant Ministers, cooks and askaris holding imprests beyond 48 hours to two days, weeks, months and, in some cases, for years. We even have former Assistant Ministers, who are no longer Members of Parliament holding imprests! This is a sign that the Government system is not efficient and we want this to end. With those few remarks, I beg to move."
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