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    "content": "We had the Public Procurement and Disposal Act of 2005. Therefore, this is an act of ignorance or complicity. It is an issue where people do not care about the rule of law. You cannot come in and say that you did not surrender imprest because you had capacity challenges, when you aware that the law is there. Madam Temporary Speaker, instead of the county governments spending millions of shillings building residences for governors, which they will leave after five or ten years, they should spend some of that money on training and making sure that the officers who are tasked with the fiduciary duty are up to the task and up to speed with the subsequent regulations that come in or Acts of Parliament. This is because the Public Finance Management Act is there to guide them. When you read the Public Procurement and Disposal Act and the Public Audit Act, you realize that some of these people do not have time to do that. If they have time to go and procure services through restricted tender, they should have time to understand the consequences thereafter. Madam Temporary Speaker, in the interest of time – and I would wish that we can conclude on this matter – it is important that this House does not leave the work to this Committee, because these are issues of the financial year 2013/2014--- We all have to be very vigilant because there are serious consequences with the mismanagement of funds. Madam Temporary Speaker, with those few remarks, I beg to second."
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