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    "id": 1478173,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Cherarkey",
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        "legal_name": "Cherarkey K Samson",
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    "content": "Committee recommends the CoB institutes mechanisms to enforce compliance of approved cash plans by county entities to avoid rampant voiding payments. During the interrogation of the reports of the Auditor General on the Financial Statements for Financial Year 2021/2022, and the election period, the Committee observed that some county entities did not submit or made late submissions of the relevant documents or provided false or misleading information to the Auditor General during the audit exercise contrary to Section 62 of the Public Audit Act, 2015. On this, people were voiding payments even two days before elections in August. Following an engagement with the Auditor General, the Committee shall consider introducing amendments to Sections 196 and 197 of the Public Finance Management Act, 2012 and Section 62 of the Public Audit Act, 2015 to include administrative sanctions to individuals who do not provide information. It is worth noting to the Committee that we provide information on members who have taken gross professional misconduct and are removed from the roll of the Institute of Certified Professional Accountants of Kenya (ICPAK). In conclusion, I wish to thank the members of the Committee, including yours truly, for attending more than 40 committee meetings. It is not easy and needs hardworking Members who work tirelessly. I also thank the dedicated secretariat, courtesy of your office, who usually sit for long hours to ensure we reduce the backlog of audit reports. On Mondays, we sit from 8.00 a.m. to 6.00 p.m., transacting serious businesses. We want to ensure the financial audit review--- Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I must say this; we are trying to look at the financial years of the sitting governors. For example, in Narok, we are considering 2022/2023 Financial Year because we do not want to be morticians but to be objective. The Committee will use various strategies, including subcommittees and merge financial years to shift to a more proactive mandate and to ensure the Senate is current in its interventions. With those remarks, I thank you and beg to lay this Statement on the Table."
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