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    "id": 1050418,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. (Prof.) Ongeri",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 124,
        "legal_name": "Samson Kegeo Ongeri",
        "slug": "samson-ongeri"
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    "content": "In addition, no county government had a staff establishment policy to determine optimal staffing levels. It was observed that most county governments had weak internal control systems arising from lack of policies, that is, internal controls, fraud prevention mechanisms, fire detection and prevention, disaster prevention, management of documents and staff pension. Madam Temporary Speaker, you could see that some of them deliberately went out of their way, causing unnecessary fires, which targeted the Treasury, and it was very strange. They would then appear before the Committee and say that they did not have documents to present before the auditors and the Committee. It, therefore, became very difficult to interrogate them. As a result of the highlighted inadequacies, the Auditor-General rendered different opinions. A total of 25 counties received a disclaimer opinion, 17 received adverse opinion and only five received qualified opinion. No county received unqualified opinion, except in 2017/2018 when there were only two counties that received an unqualified opinion. Though there was a slight improvement of record keeping from the previous financial year, there is need for more capacity building. This is especially in the human resource, procurement and accounting and revenue departments, as well as establishing strong internal audit units."
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