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    "id": 967948,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Ugunja, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Opiyo Wandayi",
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        "legal_name": "James Opiyo Wandayi",
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    "content": "As I conclude, PAC continues to discharge its mandate in a most object manner. As I said earlier on when we got into office, we shall continue to discharge our mandate and responsibility without fear or favour. We shall continue to point out these irregularities and illegalities openly and transparently. We need to rein on accounting officers and the appointing authority being the President to help Parliament. We have even recommended that we make amendments to the law and empower the Auditor-General to approve the officers given the mandate of being accounting officers. If an accounting officer has recurrent audit queries which are not resolved then they cease being accounting officers. For them to come back they need approval by the Auditor-General or this House depending on what kind of recommendations we make. They need some sanctions because if this is left to the President or appointing authorities these officers continues holding their positions. Yet, they have these serious audit queries hanging over their heads. It cannot be that one officer can continue to have unsolved issues in their dockets year in and out, yet they continue to sit in their pretty offices. If we recommend they go home and the appointing authority does not send them home they will remain there. Not unless, we move an impeachment Motion in this House. We must demonstrate that we are committed to fighting corruption. Not just by words, but through actions and deeds. We want the President wherever he is to listen to us as a Committee and take action. We are about 47 million Kenyans and half are adults. Why should we stick with 20 or so people who continuing to give the Government a bad name as if they are some sacred cows. My Committee will continue to discharge its mandate ruthlessly and objectively, even in the New Year. Already, we have asked the Speaker to give us permission to come back fairly early. We want to start the New Year with the Ministry of Agriculture and deal expeditiously with the matter of phantom maize imports and recommend specific actions for this House to adopt. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, with those very many remarks, I beg to move and ask my Vice-Chair, Hon. Jessica Mbalu to second. Thank you."
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