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    "id": 1570696,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Turkana North, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Paul Nabuin",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Deputy Speaker. I want to disclose that I am a member of this Committee. First, I want to thank my Chairman and the Members of Parliament, including the secretariat, who have taken their time to interrogate the clients and come up with a final Report. I will speak to the cross-cutting issues that came across when we were looking at the five corporations. We found that most of these corporations have declining financial performance. We realised this by the kind of Appropriations-in-Aid that we looked at. As a Committee, we agreed with the auditors that the boards needed to sit down and come up with strategies to increase revenues. This would enable the corporations to make payments for their financial commitments as well as take care of their needs. Hon. Deputy Speaker, we also realised that there was delay in appointing members of the boards of directors in most of the corporations. Boards of directors support the management of corporations. In their absence, either there will be a delay in implementation of certain activities or delayed budget approvals and unprocedural payments are made. We recommended a look at the State Corporations Act in order to reduce time of appointment of boards. Those involved in the appointment of members to boards of directors should ensure that the corporations appoint their boards within time, so that it does not affect their management. We also realised that some reports of previous Public Investment Committees were not implemented. We have recommended that the Committee on Implementation should fast-track the implementation of reports of previous PICs in order to correct some of the issues that auditors brought up. A delay in implementing the reports also delays many issues that need to be taken care of. We also noted that most times, many documents were not availed when auditors are auditing the corporations. In the process, auditors were not able to confirm areas of irregularities. Audit is a process that gives State corporations much time to provide evidence of what auditors require. Therefore, we recommended that accounting officers such as director- generals of corporations should provide documents within time. In most of the financial reports we got, the documents delayed during the audit period were provided years later. Therefore, auditors were not able to verify and confirm the inquiries they wanted to pick. Hon. Deputy Speaker, my colleagues have talked of the delay in accounting for imprest. This was also across the board in all the five corporations whose financial statements we looked at. As stated by colleagues, it is incumbent upon staff and employees of these corporations to follow laid-down regulations. When you receive imprest, you should account for it seven days upon return. We have recommended that accounting officers, whether still in those corporations or out of the corporations, be reprimanded for delayed imprest accountability. The last thing I noted is that most of the corporations have many cases in court and these cases have taken so long to conclude. This has delayed a number of decisions that needed to be taken care of by these corporations. We have recommended that accounting officers put together the list of delayed court cases and bring them before our Committee so that we can inform this House and engage the Attorney-General to have these cases fast-tracked. Most of the corporations did not have risk management policies and even internal audit structures. We have also recommended that these structures be put in place to minimise some of the issues that came out of the corporations. The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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