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"content": "That is okay, thank you. The Governor is accused of withdrawing county funds under the guise of payment for various supplies by the Governor's relatives, yet, they, the Governor's relatives, are ineligible to tender for or supply any goods or services to the county. Counsel for the Assembly, in cross-examining the Governor, completely misled this House. I was saddened because Counsel has a duty of candour despite our sectarian interests. When you retire, Hon. Senators, look at Volume 2 of the County Assembly documents. When you look at Volume 2 of the County Assembly’s documents, you will discover that from Page 1 to Page 29 is a letter by Thuranira Salesyo Mutuma to the Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission (EACC) and some attachments. That is crucial. Among those attachments is a table prepared by the said Salesyo, running from Page 4 to Page 14. Page four to Page 14 is not an Integrated Financial Management Information System (IFMIS) extract. It is a table prepared in Microsoft Word format by Salesyo. That is important because that question was posed as if this is an IFMIS extract. It is in this table that at Page 6 in row no. 4, you will find an entry called ‘hospital supplies.’ This is Salesyo writing those words. It is not IFMIS in which this is entered. It is Salesyo; a person who was not brought here. We were wondering whether he is a real human being, or he could just be taking care of his goat somewhere. At Page 11, in row three, you will find hospital supplies; another entered record by Salesyo, not from the IFMIS. The Governor's case before you is that if you proceed to Page 17 to 29, where the IFMIS extract is, and you look at the corresponding voucher numbers to these things Salesyo has written, you will find in the IFMIS extract, these are hospitality supplies. That is the Governor's case before you. So, the impression created by my colleague, Dr. Muthomi Thiankolu, that this entry ‘hospital supplies’ is an entry made by the county staff in IFMIS is a pure lie; sadly, from Counsel. When you continue looking at those charges, I am more interested in Count 1, because the other counts are the kind of counts that I can say fall on their own weight. This one here, somebody tried to point at invoices in a manner that was rather frustrating for anyone who understands this process. In fact, when I sat where I was sitting preparing my submissions -because I was not in this House- I presumed that Counsel for the Assembly did not understand the imprest system of Government. Fortunately, for us, this Senate works on imprest systems. So, the charge here is making various supplies, that is why we supply only vouchers that show you what these payments are for. They are not for supplies; they are for particular recurrent expenses. That is all. So, we are not accounting for Kshs78 million. We are just responding to this allegation. Thirdly, we are accused of paying full salary and benefits. In fact, those vouchers and those Integrated Financial Management and Information System (IFMIS) entries are only relevant in respect to allegations (a) and (b). When it comes to (c), I have already mentioned to you that these payments were made pursuant to a court order. The less I say about that, the better. Count (d) says ‘diversion or misuse of county resources including funds or motor vehicles to run the Governor’s private entity.’ You ask yourself which motor vehicle and"
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