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"speaker_name": "Prof. Ongeri",
"speaker_title": "32 Thursday, 16th June, 2011(P) The Minister for Education",
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"legal_name": "Samson Kegeo Ongeri",
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"content": " Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I became the Minister for Education in 2008. Less than 12 months despite the preoccupation with the Serena National Accord and Reconciliation talks and students strikes, I was able to detect this discrepancy in accounting procedures leading to the extended forensic audit, together with the support of the development partners. It is important to note that the draft report was given to my Ministry on 10th November, to respond to key issues that had been raised by the audit team. Originally, the figure queried by the auditors stood at Kshs8.2 billion. This was scaled down to Kshs4.2 billion following admission of the relevant supporting documents by the staff of the Accounts Department. The Kshs4.2 billion that has been declared unaccounted for by the forensic audit report, comprises of Kshs2,274,629,818 arising out of discrepancies in the financial monitoring reports, popularly known as the FMRs, and Kshs1,936,000,000 disbursed to schools for development of physical infrastructure. FMRs are the standard documents used by the World Bank to capture the funds available for a programme and the application of the funds to various activities within the programmes. It also serves as the basis for further disbursement of funds to a programme. In respect of KESSEP, FMRs were prepared from 2005 to 30th of June, 2009. The preparation was jointly done by the officials from my Ministry and the World Bank. The FMRs would then be submitted to both the Ministry of Finance and the World Bank. It is important to note that the FMRs were prepared on an annual and cumulative basis for the entire period of the programme. The discrepancy in the FMRs remain outstanding due to the fact that officers who were involved in preparing the FMRs were all transferred between September and December, 2010. That is limiting our ability to reconstruct the FMRs. I am summoning through the Treasury, because they are basically Treasury officers seconded to the Ministry, that they should avail themselves on this issue. As mentioned above, the FMRs were prepared by officers from accounts and finance departments and there is no way I could have controlled or participated, whatsoever in this process, which commenced in 2005, when I was not the substantive Minister for Education. With regard to the Standard Chartered Bank SKE payments of Kshs1,936,000,000, the Ministry disbursed Kshs1,936,000,000 to 26,000 primary schools for infrastructure developments. The forensic auditors queried the disbursement of these funds to schools due to non-availability of relevant documents. The auditors sampled out 512 schools out of the 26,000 schools and confirmed that there were anomalies in some of these schools regarding receipt of funds as follows:-"
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