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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Ndhiwa, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Martin Owino",
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        "legal_name": "Martin Peters Owino",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. From the outset, allow me to pass my condolences to the families of the two heroes who have departed. It is very sad. In a spell of nine months, we have lost leaders with a wealth of experience to cancer. I hope this House will take up the Motion which was moved by the Laikipia County Women Representative on declaring cancer a national disaster. That Motion should be scaled up to become a Bill to deal with this disease. It was wisdom to put in the Constitution that the Auditor-General should also be audited. The Public Accounts Committee has done a good job in picking up the PKF Kenya. It should be realised that auditing is not a witch-hunt. It is also looking into factors that can make an office more effective and do things more professionally. You remember how it is when we get audit reports. It usually takes a long time, maybe a year or so. Usually, memories have lapsed and we do not know what has been done with the audit queries. I hope that when they conduct the audit, they also indicate whether funds are used lawfully and effectively and if the Office of the Auditor-General is equipped or staffed to do the work effectively. That is the positive side of auditing. I hope this able firm, according to the PAC, will come up with that. As far as diversity and staffing is concerned, the National Cohesion and Equal Opportunity Committee is already dealing with that. Members should refrain from making unsubstantiated statements until they get reports from people who are doing it. Obviously, auditing is a very unique profession so you may end up finding people of one tribe engaged in it but scrutinising them and qualifying them to do the job would be my concern because every Kenyan has a right if he qualifies to do the job. The other thing is that we should ensure that we have an empowered and effective Office of the Auditor-General which can instigate preventive strikes so to speak or raise red flags if something is going wrong in Government departments so that it can be dealt with, and there can be a timely intervention to save money. Speaking about cancer, we lose a third of our revenue, 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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