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    "content": "The Committee also came across the bizarre situation of the unavailability of documents for audit due to the burning of county finance offices. This incident was observed in the audit of Homa Bay County Executive where fire conveniently destroyed finance documents thus rendering the audit exercise impossible to undertake. The fire was suspicious. Therefore, the Committee looked at this incidence and recommended that thorough investigations be undertaken by authorized agencies to unearth both the arsonist and perpetrators of this act with a view to prosecute them. We could not pin them down. At one time, it was suggested that it was an arsonist activity. However, the only way we could unravel the element of non-availability of documents for examination by the Auditor-General is to get the authorized institutions, in this case, the Ethics and Anti-Corruption and Commission (EACC) and the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) to interrogate whether there was an arsonist activity and the person held into account. If it was the action of officers within the executive, they should be brought to account. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, the internal control weaknesses in the IT control environment at the counties cannot go without a mention in the audit reports as they are arising from lack of policies to guide operations. Most counties had not established and operationalized county ICT Management Committees under the department of finance and economic planning. A case of Mandera County. Further, county governments have not reviewed their ICT governance framework in line with the revised national ICT standards developed by the ICT Authority. Further, the counties have not formerly documented and tested procedures to secure data systems in case of an emergency considering the regular fire incidents across the counties in the recent years. We noticed that county executives and county governments do not have redundancy arrangements where documents can be relocated to another site in the case of these arsonist activities as it were. We can then retrieve those documents if those arrangements were in place and auditors can access them, audit and give a proper audit report. Counties having not established internal audit Committees also featured across the audit, however, there was slight improvement as some have now put them in place, although others are yet to be fully operational."
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