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    "content": "Hon. Speaker, instruct Members to listen to me because there are many discussions going on. This matter affects them because the audited accounts include both what the parties receive from the Political Parties Fund and the money they contribute to their respective parties. In the same qualified Report, the Auditor-General raises fundamental audit reservations, including procurement issues, over-stated statement of assets, unaccounted for funds, undeclared income and loss of funds in political parties. While Committees of this House, particularly the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) and the Public Investments Committee (PIC) rush to examine reports of the Auditor-General on the accounts of the national Executive and State corporations, and the Senate deals with the accounts of the county governments, there have never been - if I am not wrong - examinations done on any of the reports of the Auditor-General on the more than 55 political parties in Kenya since 2011. I will give you just a few examples so that this House, the Members and the general public can appreciate the gravity of the audit issues of our parties. I will start with my own party, the United Republican Party (URP). Is it the secretariat or the Auditor-General that has never submitted any of URP’s audited reports? The audited reports are either with the Auditor-General or with the secretariat since 2012, when that party was formed. According to the Report of the Auditor-General on the financial statements of the Orange Democratic Movement (ODM) for the year ended 30th June 2010 - and I am happy that the Secretary General of ODM is here - which I laid on the Table of the House on Tuesday April 19th 2016, the party failed to declare income to the tune of Kshs19,549,706. This was mainly from the 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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