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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Nominated, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. David ole Sankok",
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    "content": " Thank you very much, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I support the Report of the Public Accounts Committee. This Report is very big. I have gone through it and noticed a few things that are very good for this country. The Auditor-General has been doing a good job as far as auditing accounts of both the county governments and the national Government are concerned. The problem has been their implementation. If this House can give teeth to the Auditor-General so that he has some powers to track all the monies that are transferred at all levels of Government, either county governments, national Government, parastatals, ministries, departments and agencies of Government, he will be empowered to do even more. At the moment, this Report contains a total audit of all Government agencies, ministries and departments. The House must support the Public Accounts Committee and the Auditor- General. Whenever there is this issue of audit queries, let us not be quick to first see the person who has an audit query. Let us not see the officer. Let us see the money that the Government is losing. The problem that we have when those audit queries come to this House - and the Leader of the Majority Party alluded to that - is that at times those facing great economic crimes have come to this House and this House has vetted them and given them jobs yet they had audit queries concerning public funds where they came from. We need to give our Auditor- General confidence and the only way we can do that is by making sure we do not have ethnic connotations whenever there are audit queries on particular individuals. A thief is a thief. A thief does not carry the name of a clan, religion or region. He carries a particular name. That name is known. Whenever that name appears in this House, we can only give confidence to the Auditor- General if we support his reports. I am at times worried by all those voluminous reports that seem very nice. The citizens of this country know very well that there is massive loss of public funds in the county governments and the national Government. We know how much we have lost in the National Youth Service. We know how much we have lost in the county governments. We know the shoddy jobs and contracts that have been done in county governments and have ended up being conduits for massive loss of funds. When we see those audited reports, at times a clean bill of health is given The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposes only. Acertified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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