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    "id": 1050422,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. (Prof.) Ongeri",
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        "legal_name": "Samson Kegeo Ongeri",
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    "content": "(11) Weak internal control systems. (12) Lack of assets and liabilities register. (13) Weak human resource management. (14) Irregular public participation payments. (15) Over expenditure or under expenditure of funds. (16) Poor budgeting and weak budget performance control. (17) Poor book keeping and record keeping. (18) Lack of established audit committees. (19) Failure to submit documents for audit to the Auditor-General. (20) Outstanding imprest. (21) Irregular funding of National Government functions by county governments. (22) Delayed release of equitable share to county governments. (23) Lack of inter-operability of technology systems in use such as IFMIS. (24) IFMIS challenges that I have alluded to. (25) Payment to the Council of Governors (CoG). This is illegal because this is a function that ought to be funded by the National Government. (26) Mortgage and car loan funds. (27) Legal fees. We have noted that exorbitant legal fees are charged sometimes out of the normal legal fees scale that is provided for under the legal framework. (28) Inadequacies in financial management by county governments. (29) Value for money for agricultural, livestock or tree planting projects. (30) Public Private Partnership (PPP). (31) Professional misconduct. Madam Temporary Speaker, the Report also contains specific recommendations for respective audit queries to each county, hereby indicated as chapters in the body of the Report. You will see them there. All the recommendations contained in these reports were arrived at by consensus. In conclusion, Madam Temporary Speaker, 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 the Committee and making the production of these reports possible. The Committee also appreciates the members of the secretariat for their commitment and dedication to duty. Final appreciation goes to the distinguished and dedicated Members of the Committee who created time out of their busy schedule, to attend and actively participate in the proceedings and final production of these reports. Madam Temporary Speaker, on behalf of the Committee on County Public Accounts and Investments (CPAIC), I now wish to urge the Senate to adopt the reports and the recommendations therein. They are very detailed and at every stage or audit query, we have been able to bring out clear and focused recommendations that have been discussed and agreed upon unanimously. Therefore, we can end this Session by saying that we have, indeed, produced a Report that will keep this House busy for quite a bit of time. We are anxious that instead of doing postmortems or reports of the Auditor-General, we should always do up to date 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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