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    "content": "The Committee encouraged the Cabinet Secretary on the measures being put in place, but strongly implored him to strictly enforce Section 74(2) of the Public Finance Management Act of 2012, that empowers him, as the appointing authority, to discipline errant Accounting Officers, including revoking their appointment. As a way forward, the Committee agreed with the National Treasury to jointly organise a retreat for all Accounting Officers and the office of the Auditor General aimed at enhancing everyone’s performance to ensure the audit cycle runs smoothly and within the time scales set by Article 229 of the Constitution. Hon. Speaker, in conclusion, the Committee registers its unreserved thanks to the Office of the Speaker and the Clerk of the National Assembly, the Auditor General and the entire Kenya National Audit Office (KENAO), the National Treasury and those Accounting Officers who dutifully honoured their obligations and made quality submissions before the Committee. Special appreciation goes to the Clerks to the Committee who have had to go beyond the normal call of duty on numerous occasions. The commitment and devotion to duty of all those involved in this noble task made the work of the Committee and production of these Reports a success. We thank each one of them. Before I now formally move this Motion, may I just reiterate a point I made at the beginning of this Motion, that the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) has, indeed, performed a miracle by clearing a backlog of five years of audited accounts in one financial year. The Committee has done this in a bid to make sure that we are timely, and operate within the audit cycle as established by Article 229 of the Constitution. Hon. Speaker, should this House adopt these three Reports - I see no reason why it should not adopt them - we will clear every single audit report before this Committee from the Office of the Auditor General. I want to use this platform to urge the Auditor-General to make haste and submit to the Public Accounts Committee, the audited accounts for Financial Year 2013/2014 by the end of December 2014. The backlog is now cleared and the only person stopping this Committee from making sure that we are up to date is the Auditor General. We urge him to submit to this Committee the latest report the soonest possible. May I also point out that with the clearance of this backlog, and the commitment by the Committee, this will ensure that by the year 2015, we will have settled accounts up to Financial Year 2013/2014. The revenue sharing between the national Government and the county governments will now be calculated on a much higher base of the latest accounts approved by this House. This should be good news across the board especially for county governments. On behalf of the Public Accounts Committee, I now wish to table the three Reports for the Financial Years 2010/2011, 2011/2012 and 2012/2013, and urge this House to adopt these Reports with the recommendations therein. Hon. Speaker, I beg to move and now invite the Vice-Chair and distinguished member of the Committee, member for Runyenjes, hon. (Ms.) Mbarire, to second the Motion."
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