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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Wandayi",
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        "legal_name": "James Opiyo Wandayi",
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    "content": "Hon. Speaker, I am being inducted in the functioning of the Government by my friend, Hon. T.J. Kajwang’. From the outset, this Report has been made possible as a result of the tireless efforts of the Hon. Members of my Committee. I am very proud of them. It must be noted that PAC plays a very key role. If you recall that under Article 203 of the Constitution, the equitable sharing of revenue between the national Government and the counties is premised upon the most recent audited accounts as approved by this House. You will realise that PAC, which scrutinises those very accounts, plays a very key role. We must also note that we still have a backlog of audited accounts, some dating back to as far as 2014, that need to be scrutinised by the PAC. For that reason, my Committee has developed a very ambitious work-plan that if implemented fully, will allow us to reduce or clear this backlog completely by the time the Second Session of the 12th Parliament comes to an end. It must also be noted that all accounting officers in charge of various departments, ministries, commissions and independent offices, which fall under the purview of PAC, in so far as the examination of their accounts is concerned, have an obligation to cooperate with the Office of the Auditor General. In the course of the examination of those six accounts, which are the subject of this particular Motion, we realised that a number of accounting officers have developed a very bad habit of procrastinating, deliberately delaying or otherwise refusing to submit to the Auditor-General on time the material that is asked of them. It was a matter of concern to us that some of these accounting officers have assumed that PAC is an extension of the Office of the Auditor-General. What do I mean? There are cases where some accounting officers were asked to submit specific material to enable the Office of the Auditor-General to perform its task. This material was not submitted up to the time that the accounts were before us for final examination. You would then find accounting officers bringing before us heaps of documents which we could not actually have time to examine. They would have been examined much earlier by the Auditor-General."
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