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    "content": "In the House of Commons, the Prime Minister attends. In fact, I will suggest to my colleagues that as we start the new constitutional dispensation; as we start looking at the Standing Orders, we probably might need to put in some sections that will compel hon. Members and especially the Government to attend the debate on the PAC Report. That is because, in essence, that is about half of the work that hon. Members are supposed to do in this House. Looking at the PAC Report, I would like to congratulate the Committee. This is one of the few audit Committees that are almost getting current with the accounts. I am sure the Committee has worked very hard and very soon, we will not be doing a postmortem thing. We will be looking at, probably, the previous year’s accounts. I realize that they have also suggested that we take the route of performance audit or value for money audit. So long as we continue doing financial audits, we will never be able to stem the tide of loss of Government funds; the leakage of Government funds. That is because, as it has been said before, almost half the Government funds leak out. So, it is only half the Budget that actually performs any work for this country. If we could adopt a value for money audit---"
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