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    "id": 863718,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/863718/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kitui Central (WDM-K",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Makali Mulu",
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    "content": "The other thing is the systematic challenges of Integrated Financial Management Information System (IFMIS) which I will talk about later. The last one is challenges in implementation of procurement laws and procedures. Let us ask ourselves, if we have any challenges with procurement laws and procedures, it is this House which makes laws. How comes the required amendments of this law so that we move faster are not brought to this House? To me, these are some of reasons why we are not spending the budget. There are things which can be sorted out at the administration level. It is high time we chose between having a realistic budget and another one which is there for the sake of it. Anytime you talk to anybody in this country they say the budget of Tanzania and Uganda combined is less than Kenya’s budget. The issue is not about the volume of our budget but implementing it. Unless we are implementing, we are wasting our time. The issue of un-surrendered imprest as I said earlier, we have to change our position on it in this country. As I said, every time you travel and come back, the requirement is that within 48 hours you should surrender imprest. As I said earlier, the Auditor-General gives ministries three months to prepare their accounts. After which he takes another three months analyzing them. We are talking of a period of about six months after the year closes. After this period, we still talk about un-surrendered imprest. Then we have the courtesy to stand in this House and say, “I took imprest when the year was closing and that is why I could not surrender my imprest.” That is rubbish. We need to make sure that if you travel on government resources and you come back, you surrender imprest as required by law. If you are not able to surrender imprest, your salary is either attached or the money is recovered from whatever source the Government deems fit to recover that money. It does not make sense when I see un-surrendered imprest."
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