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"content": "that of a parallel construction of a sub-county headquarters in the same neighbourhood. In the Bomet case, a parallel construction of a permanent court house was ongoing, leading to double expenditure. The Committee also notes that those projects were directly sourced in contravention of Sections 29(3) and 74 of the Public Procurement and Disposal Act, 2005. Several leases, including of the Rahimtulla Towers at Kshs67,082,169, Elgon Court at Kshs70,147,605, Agricultural Finance Corporation (AFC) offices at Kshs43,537,609 and Vomorono warehouses at Kshs3,379,776 were irregularly entered into. During the period under review, they had not been registered, a responsibility of the accounting officer. The Committee, in its site visits, noted that the requisitioned space was unnecessary and lay unused despite the fact that large sums of money - as shown above - had already been spent. Moreover, the Judiciary failed to fully pay for the leases, leading to losses to the AFC and exposing it to possible litigation. The Committee finds that Mrs. Gladys Shollei, being the accounting officer, failed to prudently manage finances towards allowances. Being the final authority on payments, the accounting officer allowed hefty allowances to be paid to non-members of the JSC, at Kshs.80,000 per sitting. Some staff members are listed in the special audit report as having earned as much as Kshs7 million each in allowances within six months. See the annex. The accounting officer allowed payment of allowances for meetings not properly constituted and lacking quorum. The table is attached. Mrs. Gladys Boss Shollei personally owes the Judiciary Kshs3,048,298.90 to date in form of salary advances and a further Kshs2,314,215, current grant, Kshs400,000 and personal expenses on staff credit card of Kshs334,173.90. Mrs. Gladys Boss Shollei is culpable of opening and/or operating bank accounts without Treasury’s approval, contrary to Section 28(1) of the Public Finance Management Act, 2012 which states that:- “The National Treasury shall authorise the opening, operating and closing of bank accounts and sub-accounts for all national Government entities in accordance with regulations made under this Act.” Mrs. Shollei further went ahead to operate a bank account, Milimani Law Courts Deposit Account No. 1116930854 at KCB as a sole signatory and allowed another Milimani Law Courts Recurrent Account No. 1129777367 at KCB to be operated by Gilbert Mutembei, also as a sole signatory. This points to a failure to institute internal controls and was a high risk occurrence. It was also found that imprests were improperly issued and managed with some staff members failing to surrender imprest within 48 hours, and even some not using the imprest for the intended purposes. Mrs. Gladys Boss Shollei oversaw poor management of affairs at the Judicial Training Institute (JTI). She authorised the expenditure of Kshs62,816,343 for the presidential inauguration even after Parliament passed laws providing a vote for the same. This amount has not been refunded and as such, starves the JTI of the much needed operational funds. Moreover, the audit exposed poor management of cash books contrary to Section 5(9) of the Government Financial Regulations and Procedures that require daily balancing and closing. Further still, the JTI incurred an over-expenditure of Kshs128,903,491 that had neither been budgeted for nor approved by Parliament. Mrs. Gladys Boss Shollei oversaw negotiations into the purchase of the Chief Justice’s house without a proper valuation being done. Evidence suggests that she relied on an indicative figure rather than a professionally done valuation report. Mrs. Gladys Boss Shollei directly 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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