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    "id": 863770,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kandara, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. (Ms.) Alice Wahome",
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        "legal_name": "Alice Muthoni Wahome",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I rise to support the Report of the Committee. I want to agree with most of my colleagues who have spoken here and particularly say that I am saddened as I make these remarks. If you look at this House, it speaks to the fact that Members are not taking up their oversight role seriously because if there is any single important report to this House, it is the report of the Auditor- General as examined by the Public Accounts Committee, which is mandated by this House. The Committee reports to this House. Therefore, it is important that as many Members as possible speak to this Report. Oversight as a new mandate in the Constitution is possibility where we are not doing well. We need, as a House, to examine how we can efficiently do that role. Yesterday, some of the concerns of the Members who are not willing to support the two- thirds gender Bill relate to the issue of the huge wage bill. We have been reminding them to speak to the wastage and economic plunder that is happening in this country. The Auditor- General’s report is a document that speaks for itself. It has highlighted various places the Committee has combed through and spent a lot of time working through the report of the Auditor-General. Where we are as a country, we must rise and put a stop to the wastage, the plunder, the theft and the robbery with violence. We cannot keep on taking Kenyans’ money. There are two issues that I want to speak about during debate on this Report. One is the pending bills. There is theft of Kenyans’ money by Kenyans who are working with the Government. They have days on end been waiting to be paid. The counties have taken the bad habit from the national Government of falling to pay contractors and suppliers that have worked for them. What happens if you did your contract and delivery of whatever you were delivering through a contract and five years down the line, you have not been paid and you have borrowed? You will find that very huge debts are being carried forward by counties. Of course, new governors will not be willing to pay previous debts. Therefore, where we have pending bills of over Kshs632 million in that respect, we have a problem. The Auditor-General has done his part. He has highlighted where we need to scrutinise. He has even given instances where the DPP can put his attention, finger and hands on people who have stolen. We want to see action and we are aware that the recruitment of a CEO to the EACC is happening. Many times, Members have expressed concerns about the efficiency and the effectiveness of the EACC. When the reports have been tabled and adopted by this House, then the next institutions; the Judiciary, the EACC and the DCI, need to move forward and carry out sufficient investigations. In most cases, the Auditor-General has highlighted theft that is 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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