{"id":594625,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/594625/?format=json","text_counter":7,"type":"other","speaker_name":"","speaker_title":"","speaker":null,"content":"Particulars include, and I hope Sen. Hassan Omar Hassan is listening attentively as per yesterday’s intervention:- (i) Lack of accountability for the management and use of county resources by incurring unsustainable debts to the tune of Kshs2.5 billion which were not disclosed in the Debt Management Paper, 2015 and the County Fiscal Strategy Paper, 2015, thus violating Article 201(e) of the Constitution of Kenya, 2010, Section 123 and Section 107(2) (e) of the Public Finance Management Act, 2012. Further scrutiny of the Debt Owing Report submitted by the County Executive Committee Member for Finance, IT and Planning as at 14th August, 2015 indicated violation of Article 226(5) of the Constitution of Kenya, 2010, since some programmes in the debt report already had an appropriation in the budget for the Financial Year 2014/2015 only to re-appear in the said debts, a clear indication of misappropriation of funds for the projects. For instance, Gakoigo Stadium, under the Department of Youth and Sports, was allocated Kshs30 million in the Financial Year 2014/2015 yet it had incurred a total debt of Kshs59 million and no monies had been paid. This positions the county at a very precarious situation which may lead to the auctioning of county assets. (ii) Violation of Article 201(a) and (d) of the Constitution of Kenya, 2010, that stipulates principles of public finance and Section 5 and 130(1)(b)(i) of the Public Finance Management Act, 2012. The County Governor allowed misappropriation of county funds by spending public funds in private commercial entities. The report of the Auditor-General on the financial operations of Murang’a County Executive for the period 1st July, 2013 to 30th June, 2014, shows that the County Executive contributed a total of Kshs28,489,800 to Murang’a Investment Co-operative Society Shilingi kwa Shilingi . The expenditure was incurred in respect of advertisements to promote the co-operative society and invite the general public to purchase shares in the co-operative. Further details of the same are contained in the Report of the County Assembly on the Murang’a Investment Cooperative Society, Shilingi kwa Shilingi. The Society is registered under the Co-operative Societies Act, Cap.490, Section 6(3) of the Laws of Kenya. The Society is an autonomous body independent of the County Executive and according to the Auditor-General’s Report, it was not clear, therefore, the circumstances under which the County Executive was funding it. This was in contravention of Section 5(1) of the Public Finance Management Act, 2012 as the Society was not declared a county corporation. Let me allow the Members to enter."}