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    "id": 1058110,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. M. Kajwang’",
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        "legal_name": "Moses Otieno Kajwang'",
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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I rise to support the Motion that, the House do adopt the Report of the County Public Accounts and Investments Committee (CPAIC) with regards to the report on the Auditor-General’s opinions and findings on county governments for those financial years that have been stated. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, as I contribute on this Motion, I want to take note that this Report that is before the House bears my name. It was done when I was chairing the CPAIC; when I had that singular privilege and honour to lead this House in its oversight arrangements. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, the only reason why this Report did not come to the House along with the other reports that we tabled back then was because of an issue of scheduling, but it was ready. I want to thank the Committee that was chaired by Sen. (Prof.) Ongeri for making sure that this Report was extracted from the shelves and brought to the House for adoption. This is because we know that the finality of the Auditor-General’s reports is when the House has adopted them. Before they are adopted, there has been a lot of debate on whether the findings of the Auditor-General can be used in a court of law, to seek justice, or in any other judicial process to ensure that people are held to account. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I also want to thank the Committee. We started seeing reports that are running up to 2018. There has been a lot of concern that the Senate has been in backlog for a long time. I do recall that prior to 2018, the House had never adopted a single report of the CPIAC. I thank the current Committee Members. They have built on the reports that my Committee brought to the House and brought very current reports. I do believe that 2019 reports which have now come to Parliament following the appointment of a substantive Auditor-General will also be considered as soon as it is practicable. Kenyans want to deal with current issues. Kenyans do not like dealing with past issues even though as they say crime does not expire. Therefore, if someone stole from the public, pilfered county funds in 2013 when devolution was just beginning, let them not think that by the mere fact that Auditor-General has a report for 2019, those sins shall go unpunished. I want to assure the public that if there are projects where you feel that there was no fiscal justice, your views were not taken into consideration, projects were supposed to have been implemented and they ended up being ghost projects, those public officers shall be held accountable. It might not happen today, tomorrow, but it shall happen with certainty as long as this Senate exits. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, it is unfortunate that as I speak, we have reconstituted the CPAIC. That delay is unnecessary, inordinate and that delay really disrupts the flow and the work of CPAIC. This is because you can clearly see that the first quarter of the year is almost gone. Last year, we lost almost two quarters before we reconstituted that Committee. 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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