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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kibwezi East, WDM-K",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. (Ms.) Jessica Mbalu",
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    "content": "and variations of estimate cost on projects. We have given the way forward in terms of recommendations. Because of limitation of time since I am just seconding, the Committee came up with several recommendations. If the recommendations are followed, even as we look at the expenditure, we will save this country a lot of money. Secondly, we will implement projects to the benefit of the common mwananchi . Some of the recommendations we have made can work for this country. First, the Cabinet Secretary (CS) for the National Treasury and Planning should within three months of adoption of this Report issue a written reprimand to all accounting officers who failed to manage imprest by ensuring that the outstanding imprest due are surrendered in time and in line with the provisions of the Public Finance Management (PFM) Act, 2012 and Regulation 93 of the PFM (National Government Regulations) 2015. We have also recommended that the CS should within three months of adoption of this Report and its recommendations, draft and submit to the National Assembly amendments to Section 67 of the PFM Act by introducing a new subsection after subsection 2 to provide for annual tabling for approval of all the names of persons designated as accounting officers for the respective entities together with the annual Appropriation Bill. Any accounting officer whose entity received a qualified audit opinion from the Auditor General should not be eligible for designation as accounting officer unless cleared through writing by the Auditor General. As a Committee, we thought that these measures and recommendations…"
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