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    "id": 1361637,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Jacob Ngwele",
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    "content": "Governor, which was used to pilferage money from the county treasury in the name of imprest or prepayments. The other clique was a group of officers working under the office of the chief of staff. Collectively, this group of people swindled an amount of Kshs78 million over a period of one financial year. The Integrated Financial Information Systems (IFMIS) data has been produced. If you do a total computation - and this amount of money has not been disputed - none of the witness from the Governor's side has disputed the totality of this amount. They have only submitted evidence to justify an amount or to account for an amount of Kshs2 million only. They have not brought evidence to justify the balance of the Kshs70 million. The first clique was responsible for Kshs6.5 million. The other group, that is the chief of staff and his officers, were responsible for the balance of the amount. In that group, you will find a person and I will just single out the individual by the name Kathure Rukaria. Individually, over a period of one year, she was paid in form of prepayments an amount of Kshs21 .8 million. We have sat here for two days; no document is in front of you justifying that payment. Nobody has disputed whether this payment was withdrawn from the country treasury. Nobody. No documents in form of a payment vouchers and imprest warrant has been submitted to justify. There has been a deliberate attempt to distort the story and to focus the attention of the Senate to the imprests. The narrative is that this amount of money was being paid as a form of facilitative imprest for the Governor's entourage. Can a Governor's entourage collect a total of Kshs78 million? The amount of money which has been accounted for is only Kshs2 million. Where are the documents? Where are the vouchers? When the Assembly requested for the documents through their summoning powers, they were told that the documents were with the Auditor-General. The letter which is in the bundle of document, indicates that the documents are being used for preparation of financial statements. Everybody who has got elementary accounting knows very well that you do not generate financial statement using vouchers. Financial statements are generated using cash books and ledgers. Even if these documents were taken to the Office of Auditor-General (OAG), where is the delivery book? No evidence has been submitted to support that expenditure. In absence of such documents to controvert this allegation, we do humbly submit that this allegation of embezzlement of funds has been proved. What they attempted to do in their defence is that they submitted a bundle of documents, which we have raised issues about its authenticity. We do submit that these documents were an afterthought. They were generated and were ex-post creations to justify. In their attempts to justify, they only justified only Kshs2 million when they had an onerous obligation of justifying Kshs78 million. Those documents were not signed, not examined and did not comply to elementary accounting standards applicable to any accounts department in a public institution. So, we do ask the Senate to disregard that"
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