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    "id": 560102,
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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Keynan",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Adan Wehliye Keynan",
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    "content": "It is also noteworthy that most audit reservations relate to non-adherence of the following issues: Audit is a complex issue. It is a very dynamic and complex issue. Therefore, when we analysed all the audit issues raised over the years, we were in a position to cluster and come up with the following topical issues that all the auditors over the years have raised issues of concern: The first one is the procurement procedures. They have been abused and flouted over the years. Every year, the Auditor-General’s report shows how the procurement procedure pursuant to the Public Procurement and Disposal Act of 2005 have been flouted by different State corporations. The other bit that has been abused is variations of tender awards. Tenders are awarded with the sole objective of later on varying them. Therefore, tender variation has become an entrepreneurship on its own. This has created serious audit issues. The other issue is the slow pace of the recovery of imprest. It has become a business on its own. Executives of different organisations have abused that facility. They have used it as a cash cow. Therefore, it is one of the issues that the auditors have raised over the years. Imprest is supposed to serve on emergency basis, something that cannot be done in a very long time. They are supposed to clear within 24 hours after one has used that facility. You will realise that some of these imprests have been outstanding for the last two or three decades, and the individuals who took them have either died or are old and completely in a different state. The other bit that the auditors have raised, which has been abused, is non-maintenance of a fixed asset register. One of the entities that we had a privilege to look at its accounts was Telkom Kenya. This House adopted a report and even after going through serious privatisation, to date, nobody has access to the fixed asset register of Telkom Kenya. This gave an opportunity to the usual cartels to take advantage of that lacuna and benefit immensely. Once upon a time, we used to have a giant organisation called the Kenya Posts and Telecommunication Corporation (KPTC) that gave birth to Telkom Kenya, Postal Corporation of Kenya, the Communication Commission of Kenya and the Communication Bilateral Authority. To date, none of these off springs of the KPTC is functioning effectively as expected. This is because privatisation was not properly done and accountability was not applied in the process of privatizing. Today, we have a collapsing former giant called “Telkom Kenya”. This is because somebody somewhere did not apply the rule of law. The other bit that the auditors have raised is the issue of stalled projects. Projects are initiated without plans and proper road maps. A project is initiated without a budget simply because it is prudent or you are in a hurry to make a quick kill. You initiate a project, you create a lacuna and within a very short time, it is stalled. If you go around this country, you will realise that there are projects worth billions of shillings if not trillions that have stalled. This is a waste The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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