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    "id": 748984,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Eng.) Gumbo",
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        "legal_name": "Nicholas Gumbo",
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    "content": "The Ministry should further complete any stalled projects and develop a clear criterion for identification and distribution of such projects in the future. (30) The Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) should commence investigations into abuse of office on officers who authorised opening of bank accounts without national Treasury approval, contrary to Section 28(1) of the PFM Act, 2012. As I conclude, I want to state that the Committee was also alive to attempts to derail it from attaining its mandate. Political interference manifested itself severally with political pronouncements and unsubstantiated claims being made against the Committee and its Members. The Committee stayed true to its calling and responsibility and has produced this Report that it believes has already had impact by prosecution of key suspects and the scope of investigatory agencies widened. The Committee will forever be guided by its mantra of beyond reproach. The Committee wishes to register copious appreciation to the Office of the Speaker, the Clerk of the National Assembly, the Auditor-General, the national Treasury and the witnesses who dutifully honoured invitations to appear and make satisfactory submissions before it. Special mention should go to the Secretariat of the Committee which, time and again, went beyond the call of normal duty to produce this Report. The commitment and devotion to duty of all those involved in this noble task made the work of the Committee and the production of this Report a success. We thank each one of them most profusely. Hon. Speaker, on behalf of the members of PAC and pursuant to Standing Order No. 199(6), it is now my distinguished honour and privilege to present the Report of the PAC on its recommendations of the Special Audit Report of the Accounts of the NYS for deliberation and adoption by the House."
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