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    "id": 73370,
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    "speaker_name": "Dr. Kones",
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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, thank you for giving me this chance also to support this Motion. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, as the Vice-Chairman of the Committee, I want to also thank my colleagues for putting in the efforts to come up with this important Report. I want to thank also the hon. Members who have contributed in support of this Report. Indeed, it is one of those reports which ordinarily, we would expect each and every one of us to give an input into, because it reflects the performance of our Government and how public finances are spent. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, having been in that Committee for the last three years, we must congratulate it for having been very hard on the Executive. We have seen the fruits of the efforts that we have put as a Committee. The Report which we are discussing now is for 2006/2007, but I am happy that in the subsequent reports which we are going to be discussing in the subsequent years, we have seen substantial reduction in the number of audit queries. This gives us some hope to some extent that the Executive has been able to put its House in order but we are still far from sorting out the mess in the Executive. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, there are issues which have been raised in the Report which I do not want to dwell on, in detail but they relate to inefficiencies in the Government that led to losses of public finances. One of the issues that we have come across which we have noted and I would like to emphasize it, is the failure by the Treasury at times to put in place the necessary financial systems to seal the leakages that we have in our financial system. We laud the IFMIS system that is in the Government but we want to encourage or ask the Government to continue implementing this system and train the officers. One of the queries in the books is because of misunderstanding by the officers who are supposed to manage this system. If the system was used well, for example, we would not have had issues about issuance of double imprests to Government officers. I think it is the role of the"
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