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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Mariam Omar",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Speaker, for giving me this opportunity. I stand here to support the Report of the CPAC. As the Chairperson of the Committee moved the Motion on the adoption of the Report, I noticed some common issues among the counties. Some of them are unsupported expenditure and fiduciary risk in financial reports. We have seen that in 16 counties and it is above Kshs50 million. Most of the counties paid money without supporting documents. I urge the Chairperson and Committee Members not to allow any unsupported documents to be availed to the Committee. The county government through the governor, who is the Chief Executive Officer (CEO), should take action against an officer who fails to avail documents to the Office of the Auditor-General (OAG) under Section 156 of the Public Finance Management (PFM) Act of 2012. The second issue is on pending bills. Most of the counties do not disclose their pending bills. Pending bills are normally the first charge and it usually accumulates. For example, Mandera County has a pending bill of Kshs2 billion. This shows that they are not paying but are instead accumulating the pending bills. The other one is avoidable expenditure. Avoidable expenditure is like penalties, and interests on statutory deductions which have not been submitted on time. The other one is installed projects and poor workmanship. Projects in some counties are stalled because of lack of public participation. They do not involve the citizens in order for them to get to know their needs. Additionally, we have the fixed assets register. Most of the counties do not keep their fixed assets registers. That shows that the assets of the counties are unknown. Therefore, as the Chairperson and Committee Members make a follow-up on those assets without a register---"
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