Entry Instance

HTTP 200 OK
Allow: GET, PUT, PATCH, DELETE, HEAD, OPTIONS
Content-Type: application/json
Vary: Accept

{
    "id": 583135,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/583135/?format=api",
    "text_counter": 67,
    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. (Dr.) Khalwale",
    "speaker_title": "",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 170,
        "legal_name": "Bonny Khalwale",
        "slug": "bonny-khalwale"
    },
    "content": "Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, allow me to start with the clarification sought by the Senator for Mandera County. Yes, the Constitution speaks to this; that six months after the end of every financial year, the Auditor-General should have completed the audit and the audited reports tabled in this House. The law further provides that within six months from the time the reports are tabled here, this House should have made a decision on those particular audited accounts, by either approving them with or without amendments or rejecting them. I agree with you. We have pursued this matter with the Auditor-General as a Committee and he has only found one bush in which he was hiding. He claims he does not have the human resource to audit all the 47 county governments and the national Government. Fortunately, for this House and the country, when I recently talked to the Auditor-General specifically on this one, he confirmed that he had received an additional Kshs1 billion in the current financial year to procure more human resource. I hope that now that our universities are awash with young professionals who are qualified in this area, he will bring them on board. In fact, we are merely bending backwards to accommodate the Auditor-General. Seriously, he has fallen short of the glory in the specifications set out in the Constitution of Kenya. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, my second comment is on the Senator for Bomet. Briefly on the first question, you are bordering on casting aspersions on the Office of the Auditor-General. You are worried about the accounts of Bomet County; that since they were the accounts of the most “powerful” Governor who was the Chair of the Council of Governors (CoG), some monkey tricks might be played. I take this opportunity to assure the people of Bomet County, through you, that the Senate Committee on Public Accounts and Investments is not composed of robots. We are human beings who are alive and our ears are open to what is going on in the counties. 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."
}