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    "id": 781135,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/781135/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Rono",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 13367,
        "legal_name": "Daniel Kipkogei Rono",
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    "content": "Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I second this Report of the Public Accounts Committee which has touched on the examination of audited accounts of various commissions, as the Chairman has stated. As has already mentioned by the Chairman, the Committee has taken the unprecedented measure of considering audited accounts for the six agencies. This touches on the 2015/2016 Financial Year as a way of clearing the backlog of reports. By and large, the Committee noted that accounting officers that appeared before the Committee presented satisfactory explanations on resolutions to issues raised in audit queries. However, the Committee noted that at the time of writing this report accounting officers, as mentioned, the Chairman of the National Land Commission appeared before the Committee without a written submission and without being accompanied by other relevant officers. The Chairman noted that this kind of brazen casualness will not be entertained in future. In that regard, we have taken very firm steps that when appearing before our Committee, accounting officers must appear. The Committee noted that in some projects, project managers from the Ministry of Lands, for example, in a project undertaken at Harambee House, subjected the PSC to pay some interest because of delayed payments. To this end, the Committee is of the opinion that, going forward, the Ministry should be held financially accountable for any penalties arising from delays in processing certificates of works as well as invoices."
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