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    "id": 1379405,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Navakholo, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Emannuel Wangwe",
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    "content": "The second corporation is the Clinical Officers Council. The Committee observed two issues. 1. The Clinical Officers Council was established as a body corporate by the Clinical Officers (Training, Registration and Licensing) Act of 2017, with an envisaged financial and administrative autonomy. 2. Since 2017, the accounting officer of the council failed to prepare financial statements and accounts of the monies received from the public and, thereafter, submitting them to the Auditor-General for audit, in contravention of Section 68 (2)(k) of the Public Finance Management Act of 2012. If I may highlight the issue of failing to account for all the resources, the entire amount covering the 23 State corporations amounts to Ksh3.972 billion. The Committee recommends that: 1. The Accounting Officer shall prepare outstanding financial statements of the council since inception and submit them to the Auditor-General for audit. 2. The Auditor-General shall audit and report to Parliament in accordance with Article 229 of the Constitution and the Public Audit Act of 2015. 3. The Registrar of the Clinical Officers Council must at all times comply with legal provisions relating to accounts and audit in accordance with Section 68 of the Public Finance Management Act of 2012 and Section 29 of the Clinical Officers (Training, Registration and Licensing) Act of 2017. 4. Within three months upon the tabling and adoption of this Report, the Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission should investigate the matter of the Clinical Officers Council outsourcing private auditors, which is contrary to Section 23 of the Public Audit Act of 2015. This is with a view to ascertain any loss of public funds, including audit fees paid to the private auditors. Subsequently, the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions is to prefer appropriate charges. The corporation chose to invite private auditors to carry out the audit function, against the State Corporations Act and against the various establishing laws of the land."
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