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    "id": 1162705,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. (Dr.) Ochillo-Ayacko",
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    "content": "We observed that there was lack of an approved staff establishment. Recruitments were going on anyhow. Recruitments were supposed to be done pursuant to an approved staff establishment. However, most executives were eager to recruit people outside the proper staff establishment. We observed that there were delays in project implementation, lack of updated fixed registers, irregular use of receipts or use of revenue at source without depositing them in the County Revenue Fund. We found that there were quite huge lists of unpaid bills leading to colossal amounts of pending bills. There was also lack of functional internal audit committees and lack of risk management policy framework. The counties were being ran in a manner that they were no internal auditors or audit committee or a risk management framework. Madam Temporary Speaker, those are the general remarks about the state of the counties. The reports that we are seeking adoption of, talks specifically about every county and specific audit issues. It is very frustrating to this House and Committees when year in and year out, we take our time, spend public funds to interrogate, write and table reports before this House and have them adopted but there is no implementation. The ritual of discussing reports in this House and adopting them is now becoming boring. If nothing is done about it, then this House is likely to lose its sting or teeth when it comes to ensuring that public funds allocated for county government use, does not go to waste. Madam Temporary Speaker, as we debate this report, all of us who are here should think of ways and means of getting back out sting and having resolutions of this House implemented. You will find that from 2013 to 2014, the audit query that relates to monies that are used by the Council of Governors (CoG) keeps on recurring. The county executives keep on putting money and allocating it for CoG. The issue that relates to CoG, is a national function. It is there in the Constitution. Therefore, it should be funded by the national Government. Counties like yours and mine with limited finances are still allocating millions of shillings for governors to come and operate in a club called the Council of Governors (CoG) here in Nairobi when it is clearly contrary to the law. The Auditor-General, year in and year out has indicated that it is outlawed. If such resolutions are adopted by this House and no action is taken then, that law and its sting is rendered impotent because people do not give a damn about violation of the law and even when the violation is known nobody brings to book the violators of the law. Madam Temporary Speaker, year in, year out resolutions are adopted in this House recommending actions against county executive members who do not avail documents for audit. A close look at Section 62 of the Public Audit Act, gives directive to the auditee that the information and documents must be availed to the Auditor-General in time, and where it is not possible to avail in time, the information must be availed within reasonable time. An audit cycle that begins by the Auditor- General asking for those documents within two weeks. When those documents or information is not availed to the Auditor- General, he will remind the auditee that they still require those documents. When that"
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