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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Mungatana, MGH",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, for allowing me to comment on the Statement by the Committee Chairperson of the Senate County Public Accounts Committee (CPAC). I stand to commend the hon. Sen. M. Kajwang and the Members of that Committee. They have been doing a good job. I attended a session as an invited Senator when my County was before that Committee. I can attest to the fact that this Committee is working. The only single point I wanted to mention before this House is that I would like to read Article 226 of the Constitution. This Article deals with accounts and audits of public entities. Article 226(5) states that- “If the holder of a public office, including a political office, directs or approves the use of public funds contrary to law or instructions, the person is liable for any loss arising from that use and shall make good the loss, whether the person remains the holder of the office or not.” Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, governors are the political office holders and we also have accounting officers. Whether in office or not, the previous governors or the people who were in charge of disbursing funds in counties, are to be held liable for loses made on public funds. Further, Article 226 of the Constitution makes it mandatory that those who are found to have occasioned loss, directly or indirectly, whether in office or not, will be made to make good that loss that was incurred by the public fund. I want the Chairperson of the County Public Accounts Committee (CPAC) to tell us how many governors and other Authority to Incur Expenditure (AIE) holders from counties, have been found to occasion loss to the various funds. How many of them have been made to make good of their losses? Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, it is not enough from this Article, for Committees to just state that they will take this matter to the Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission (EACC), Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) or another body. They then escape the responsibility that has been put upon them by Article 226."
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