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    "id": 863758,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/863758/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Butula, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Joseph Oyula",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 13313,
        "legal_name": "Joseph H Maero Oyula",
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    "content": "Control of Government expenditure is very important. All rules of Government expenditure must be followed by the ministries. Ministries know the rules and the systems they should follow. So, we should not have the Auditor-General querying imprests every. They have become too much. If ministries do not match expenditure with revenue, that is how we get many pending bills. At times, ministries commit the Government before knowing whether they will get cash or not. The IFMIS was meant to match revenue with expenditure before any commitment is incurred. The IFMIS should be applied to enable ministries to know that they can only commit the Government if the revenue is available to meet the expenditure. The problem is so big in ministries that you find a lot of commitments that have not been covered with revenue. Another area where ministries need to be very careful is statement of assets and liabilities. These statements are not well prepared. You find that loses, if any, are heaped under suspense accounts within statements of assets and liabilities. This needs to be looked into critically to ensure that any loses hidden within suspense accounts are brought out and either written off or people made to answer for them. There are huge figures in suspense accounts of ministries which should be looked at carefully. 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."
}