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    "id": 863764,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/863764/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Gem, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Elisha Odhiambo",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Elisha Ochieng Odhiambo",
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    "content": "It is important to note that audit reports help in the independent and systematic examination of statutory records and books of accounts. It is important that even as we look at the accounts as presented by the audit report, we should also look at what would help us achieve a good level of efficacy. We should ensure that processes that are not working well are corrected. The processes that have been pointed out by the Auditor-General for improvement should be enforced, so that in the next audit, we can see an improvement from the ministries based on the flaws that were pointed out. If ministries do not learn any lesson from the audit report, then an audit report to the ministry would be like a flower girl. That brings me to the point. The Report by Public Accounts Committee is very comprehensive and has given the DCI and the EACC a clear mandate. So, their jobs are well cut out. Our business as Members of Parliament would be to support the agencies to ensure that those who plunder public resources are brought to book, so that future generations are protected. This must be done based on the evidence that exists in the Report. I am calling on the two agencies to take bold actions based on the Report to ensure that the money that belongs to this country is protected. It is important to point out something that we need to think of as a country. For those who have studied the scorecard, it points out at four things, namely, customer perspective, learning perspective, the internal process and financials. The audit report would focus on financial and internal processes."
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