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"content": "Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I will be brief. First of all, I thank the Select Committees for the work and effort they have put although the reports are still postmortem. I saw the Chairperson here. I urge them to do more so that these reports are up to date. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, if we are debating reports of the Committee covering the financial years 2018/2019 and 2019/2020 at this time in 2024, you can appreciate the concerns that Kenyans have. We have to bring the review of these reports up to date. There are a few things in the reports that one can notice straightaway. There are a lot of financial errors and unaccounted for expenditures. Many of these county assemblies that have been mentioned here like West Pokot, Kiambu, Isiolo, Marsabit, Narok, Nyamira and so on, have financial gaps and misappropriations that have occurred within the mentioned years. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, what surprises me is that every time the PAC is sitting, we have representations from the Office of the Auditor General (OAG) and the Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission (EACC). They sit there and collect allowances while they see these mistakes every time the PAC sits. These agencies, particularly, the EACC are spending public money to sit there, hear that a certain officer or a certain governor has been accused of misappropriation of funds and abuse of office in these county assemblies and Executives and they take no action. So, I propose that we remove some of those officers because it is a drain on public money. If you go there and you are not adding any value, you should be removed from sitting in the PAC. We know what the Senators, the Secretariat, the Auditor General and his officers are doing there, but why does the EACC sit there? Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, up to now, they have not prosecuted a single person. This Report has even mentioned officers who have misappropriated public funds and failed to account in these county assemblies and yet, not a single one has even been called to record a statement yet, the EACC is just sitting there. I propose that we now relook--- If we are serious, then people should be arrested and charged. If we do not want to do it, then let us at least save the public money that is spent on allowances. People sitting there every day the Committee is sitting, going home tired, listening to all this jargon and there is nothing that comes out of it--- I have wondered; why is it that even the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) does not sit there? The DPP is actually the prosecuting authority, the DCI and EACC are The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposes only.A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Director, Hansard and Audio Services,Senate."
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