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    "content": "implementation of the project which were communicated directly to the World Bank headquarters. However, the nature and details of the allegations have never been shared with the Government. The World Bank audit of April 2009 focused on seven districts namely Wajir, Isiolo, Samburu, Garissa, Tana River, Nyeri and Kajiado, including the project headquarters in Nairobi, and covered 2006 to 2008 financial years. The report was forwarded to the Government after a period of two years since the commencement of the audit. The report highlighted some questionable expenditures as well as suspected fraudulent expenditures totaling Kshs362 million, including specific risks and financial management challenges facing the project. In order to address the accountability and financial management challenges highlighted in the World Bank forensic audit report, Treasury made a commitment to conduct a risk based audit review of the project using World Bank as a roadmap. A key outcome of the audit review was a confirmation that a total amount of ineligible expenditures amounted to approximately Kshs48 million as opposed to the World Bank figure of Kshs362 million, while expenditures amounting to Kshs165 million were categorized for further investigations. Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, an accountability action plan jointly developed between the Government and the World Bank has been under implementation in order to ensure that the risks and financial management challenges that plague those three projects do not re-occur again. All Government staff that were adversely involved in integrity issues highlighted in all the three audit reports were put under investigations by Kenya Anti-Corruption Commission (KACC) and some have been arraigned in court. Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, I now table the three audit reports together with the letters dated 9th November 2011 from Mr. Hassan Bahari, the Executive Director of the World Bank, another dated 24th October 2011 from Mr. Joseph Kinyua, Permanent Secretary to the Treasury and another of 6th October 2011 from Mr. Johan Issut, the Country Director for Kenya in the World Bank."
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