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"content": "office, including a political office directs or approves the use of public funds contrary to the law or instructions, the person is liable for any loss arising from that use and shall make good the loss whether the person remains the holder of the office or not. Again, let everybody be warned that you shall be held personally liable for any action or inaction you take that leads to loss or wastage of public resources. That will happen whether you are still in office or you have vacated the office. Among the areas that have remained notorious include:- Misappropriation of funds; unsupported expenditure in the accounts that we have been debating up to 30th June, 2010; unsupported expenditure amounting to Ksh6,955,884,425.51 - that is money actually spent and no supporting documentation was submitted to either the Auditor-General or PAC. There is also the question of excluded expenditure and by 30th June, 2010, we had an excluded expenditure of Ksh4,037,425, 912.68. Other issues include, abuse of office; violation of procurement regulations; outstanding imprests which, as at 30th June, 2010, amounted to Ksh792,557,902.65; pending bills which as at 30th June, 2010, stood at Ksh16,640,966,825.99; delayed responses to audit queries; under-collection of Appropriations-in-Aid. As at 30th June, 2010 there was a deficiency of Ksh40,892,496,697.63. That is under-collection amounting to 35 per cent of the initial target. That is a very high deficiency rate regarding under-collection of Appropriations-in-Aid. To respond to all those challenges, the Committee has resolve hence forth to undertake the following measures:- (i) The Committee will name and shame individuals bearing responsibility across all arms of State publicly. (ii) The Committee will also recommend to the Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission to conduct further investigation where necessary. (iii) The Committee will also recommend to the Director of Public Prosecutions to immediately institute prosecution where culpability is obvious and glaring. As part of our effort to harmonize our activities as a National Assembly and also aware that accountability is cross-cutting and involves other players including the office of DPP, Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission, Judiciary and other actors, we will be launching on the 27th of March this year a network that we have christened “Accountability Kenya. Hon. Speaker, let me thank you once again for having presided over the birth of the idea of “Accountability Kenya”, which shall serve as a platform that will bring together all actors in the arena of accountability and help us synergize and coordinate our efforts. That way, when Parliament makes recommendations, such as the recommendations contained in the Report we are just concluding debate, we can pass the baton on to the next actors; be they Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission, DPP, Judiciary and other actors."
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