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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Langat",
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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I rise to support this Report. I want to congratulate the Committee for doing a very thorough job. The Public Accounts Committee has done the Report every year. When you read the Report, it is very obvious that the same issues that have been raised over the years continue to be raised. This means that those who are supposed to implement the recommendations of the PAC and the Controller and Auditor-General just take it for granted. Those who are supposed to implement the recommendations of this Committee must ensure that everything is implemented so that we do not have the same audit queries being raised in the report every year. The issue of public debt has been raised by an hon. Member before. When you read the Report, you will note that we are standing at Kshs1.2 trillion in terms of public debt. This means that those who are supposed to control expenditure are not doing their job. Since external debts are controlled by the External Debts Act, the Government has misused the local debts by borrowing in excess of the public debt. I think in future, local debts should not exceed external debts so that this matter cannot be abused and so that the financial system cannot be interfered with by the Government. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, the office of the Controller and Auditor- General should be further strengthened so that they do the job within a given timeframe and bring up the issues so that we can solve them when they are still alive. This will ensure that we do not get to a situation where matters are raised long after they have happened. On the issue of corruption, the Government should ensure that corruption ends. We are tired of getting this question on expenditure from the Reports of the PAC. We"
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