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    "id": 863104,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Eldas, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Adan Keynan",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 41,
        "legal_name": "Adan Wehliye Keynan",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. As a matter of procedure, we are debating the Report as amended by Hon. Junet. I take this opportunity to thank Members of this particular Committee led by the indomitable Hon. Wandayi for bringing a very concrete Report. However, these reports have always been there. The PAC is as old as this Parliament. We have always generated reports but it is high time we really appreciated why the framers of our Constitution and our Standing Orders decided to have critical committees called PAC and PIC. In other jurisdictions, you only have PAC. In the Kenyan context, we have PAC and PIC and right now we have the Special Funds Accounts Committee. If you go to Germany, they have PAC and the Budget Committee. There are critical issues that have been mentioned here. One is the institutional mechanism that this particular unique and very important Committee uses in auditing Government ministries’ accounts. There are two critical institutions. One is the Office of the Auditor-General. In particular, I want to mention the Office of the Auditor-General. This Office must be strengthened if we really want to get value for our money. This office must be supported so that they can get experts in different fields because this is an ICT and technology era. This is one thing that has been lacking. Therefore, I urge Members here that, if we really want to get value for our money, please empower the Office of the Auditor-General. That is the most effective way of holding Government institutions to account. Secondly…"
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