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    "content": "require – in the recruitment of personnel in this country – that we think about the type of persons that we require to help us audit specialised resources especially in their raw form. I have taken oil as an example. Oil comes off the ground and you do not know what grade it is. It is important that we grade the material so that we get the maximum out of it. Madam Temporary Speaker, I know that there are countries which produce oil. Their oil has been labeled as grade 3 when, in fact, it is grade 1. The difference between grade 3 and grade 1oil is sometimes ten times. So, those countries lose the resource for simply lacking the type of personnel that can audit special resources like oil. As Kenya moves into the era of exploiting raw materials, it is important that we not only have auditors of our monies but we also have auditors of special resources that we have in this country. Titanium, for example, is mined in this country at the moment. I doubt whether we are getting the full value of titanium in terms of its grading. It could, probably, be graded as simple red soil that comes from Kwale and gets through yet we know that the phones that we have at the moment are made of Titanium which is the best material available. It should attract the best prices. However, we are unable to reach there because we do not have the kind of specialised units that can audit some of the resources. Therefore, Madam Temporary Speaker, the terms of employment for persons in this sector should be adjusted to cover all areas; not only finance, accounting and economics. I believe that we now need hydrologists, engineers and people with such backgrounds who can evaluate some of the materials when they are both in crude form or refined. Madam Temporary Speaker, I am sure that it is in the area of auditing of the materials that will enable us to take charge of the kind of things we want to audit in this country. I am absolutely sure that as we continue to explore oil in this country, this will be the first point at which we stand to lose value of our products unless we look at our auditing procedures, processes and auditing personnel. I have no doubt that this country has this kind of people. It is simply the placement and their choice that we can take care of, in order to utilize them for auditing purposes. Madam Temporary Speaker, the speed at which this country produces auditing results is worrying especially in this Senate where we are supposed to oversight many things. It is obvious that we cannot oversight without auditors coming along with us. Members of the auditing team must be available for Senators in their areas particularly in the constituencies where the resources that I have talked about are available so that they are audited as we go on. Therefore, Madam Temporary Speaker, I support this Bill. I can probably see that it is short on one or two areas. However, I am sure that it is the kind of a Bill that we can pass and it will probably assist us to make small steps as we seek other options and ways on how to implement an audit that is of value to this country so that we do not lose resources. With that, Madam Temporary Speaker, I am sure that other colleagues who are reading at this Bill will probably look at the values that are within it and suggest little areas that we can make improvement on. Madam Temporary Speaker, I beg to support. The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposes only. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate."
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