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    "id": 863608,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/863608/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Garissa Township, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Aden Duale",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 15,
        "legal_name": "Aden Bare Duale",
        "slug": "aden-duale"
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    "content": "through this house. Most of the accounting officers are Principal Secretaries. The Chair of Public Accounts Committee has done a very good job. We must put it in the Report that if any accounting officer, like a Principal Secretary, has audit issues, that becomes the stage for that person not to be appointed for a position. When we are vetting, that person should not be cleared. The problem we have in this country is Parliament. There are people who have been indicted in reports of committees. Some of their recommendations are that certain people cannot hold public office. This is a very serious indictment but that person is given a job and a Committee of this House clears him. That is where the problem is. Parliament is a House of records. If you were indicted in Public Accounts Committee, Public Investments Committee or in any other committee report that you cannot hold public office and that you embezzled public resources, this House has no moral obligation to vet and clear you. We should start from this financial year of the Public Accounts Committee Report. The Clerk of the National Assembly must keep record that the following people in the 11th Parliament were indicted not to hold public office, so that the President is advised not to appoint them to any constitutional office."
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