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    "id": 964859,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/964859/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kitui Central, WDM-K",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Makali Mulu",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 1955,
        "legal_name": "Benson Makali Mulu",
        "slug": "benson-makali-mulu"
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    "content": "Hon. Speaker, as the Budget and Appropriations Committee, we had a meeting the other day with the Office of the Auditor-General. The two officers who came from that office told us that they have a list of reports which have been finalised, but they cannot be submitted to this House just because we do not have a substantive Auditor-General in office to sign them. This House has pronounced itself to the fact that we need to carry out some special audit of some specific programmes in the Government. In a situation where such a report will inform even budget-making process, you realise that when the Auditor-General has not signed the report, we have to pend the final decision on those programmes. This is a serious matter. I really want to support what you have said. As a country, we cannot afford to move forward this way where constitutional offices remain vacant for a time before we get people to occupy them. You have put it very rightly that the Auditor-General’s tenure of office is not one term. As you have said, that term is eight years. I cannot believe that somebody is in office for eight years and we know the time he will exit and we cannot plan. There is this common saying that says that failure to plan is planning to fail. As a country, we are automatically planning to fail. I do not think any Kenyan wants to see this country fail."
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