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    "id": 863822,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/863822/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Nambale, ANC",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Sakwa Bunyasi",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "John Sakwa Bunyasi",
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    "content": "I have gone through this Report with great effort, but not with a fine toothcomb, but there are recommendations in departments that have been problematic. I have mentioned health and agriculture. If you had sat in this Committee and listened to them, you would expect a lot of material for the DPP. I do not see it here as a matter of fact. The Office of the President had great difficulty in explaining the use of confidential expenditure. We admit that every Government has confidential expenditure. However, there have been internal systems, even if they are closed to the public, that are rigorous that look into it. You cannot have a system in which you have a Government department that holds literally billions of shillings in slash funds and be unwilling to account for it because it is confidential expenditure. Can you get a confidential auditor or forensic review system internally that looks at how these funds are used? At the end of the day, the taxpayer should also feel that if they must fund this confidential expenditure, it must be funded according to some rules. It cannot be completely open ended. I know we are at war. There are many issues, including terrorism internally. However, while other confidential expenditure was accessible for review, the accounting officers did not provide much comfort. It is now going completely out of the picture. That is a matter of serious concern."
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