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    "content": "We recommended that pending bills should form the first charge in the budget of the successive financial year. The county governments should prepare a debt management strategy every financial year and that the Auditor-General undertakes a special audit to verify the authenticity of the pending bills. We deliberated on the question of inter-governmental debts and we all agreed the county governments should- (1) Undertake an edging analysis of the debts brought to it by the national Government; (2) The county government should develop a mechanism to collect debts owed to them; (3) The national Government should undertake an edging analysis of debts owed to it by the county governments; (4) The National Treasury should develop a framework to guide the process of settling debts owed by the entities of the two levels of Government. One of the notable cases was the dispute between the Nairobi City County Government and the national Government and any other such incidences that have been cited; and, (5) The National Treasury should write off debts as per Section 69 of the Public Finance Management (PFM) Act, 2012 and Regulations so that we can clean up the books since they will be recurring audit queries all the time. There were many such areas as I have mentioned under the collection of county revenue. One can make a misrepresentation of county revenue and incomplete and non-utilized projects and lack of assets and liabilities register. If I continue reading the rest of the recommendations, it will be mere repetition since Members have the entire report. I wish all the Members well in going through the over 2,000-page document. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, in conclusion, I wish to register my appreciation to the Office of the Speaker, the Clerk of the Senate and the Office of the Auditor-General for facilitating the work of CPAIC and making the production of these reports possible. The Committee also appreciates the secretariat of the CPAIC for their commitment and dedication to duty. The Members of the CPAIC of Senate, the ones whose names I read when I made my opening remarks, worked very hard. It is not easy to examine the audit reports of 47 counties. We examined the audit reports of 46 counties. One county could not come because of certain elements and we were caught with time. The 47th county was also notorious since it had attracted an adverse opinion. I think that is a matter that can be taken up by the EACC and the DCI to deal with that county because we could not even interrogate the executive. That is Murang’a County. The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate."
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