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    "id": 990011,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/990011/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Ochillo-Ayacko",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 347,
        "legal_name": "Ochilo George Mbogo Ayacko",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir, for an opportunity to make a few remarks on this matter. First, I want to congratulate the petitioners for this Petition. It means that they are patriotic citizens, and they mind and care about utilization of public funds. It is sad that in this day and age, there are still issues relating to outright theft of public funds. If you study the trends the world over, in developed nations, you will find out that audit queries are in the nature of value for money. Counties and institutions do not have audit queries that relate to outright theft of public funds. This is a matter that ought to have been concluded by the Ethics and Anti- Corruption Commission (EACC) or the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI). These people should have been in jail because it took place about six years ago. It is sad that it still continues. I hope that when we get a new Auditor-General, we will be focusing more on value for money and not on outright theft of public funds, because that is the era of primitive generation. Stealing public funds like that without doing anything, is something that should not have waited to come to the Senate; it should have been dispensed with by the line institutions that deal with criminal activities. Mr. Speaker, Sir, I am happy that this Petition has come here. I hope that we will use this to deal conclusively with people who have this kind of behaviour."
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