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    "id": 683475,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Gikaria",
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        "legal_name": "David Gikaria",
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    "content": "understand queries of wastages raised. It has always been alleged that the Auditor-General requires enough money and it is true so that he can undertake his responsibility effectively. They should note that compliance of the international accounting standards is paramount. The Committee notes that most of those State departments have not been complying with the recognised international standards, and we will be losing a lot of money in terms of misappropriation of funds. Sometimes, it is deliberate that they do not include some footnotes on the financial reporting at the end of the year. It has been alleged at the county level that they do not have the capacity to perform the accounting work in a better way. In my county, the Governor claimed that all the personnel that used to handle the IFMIS were withdrawn by Government and sent back to the National Treasury. That left Nakuru County with no human personnel to operate that system. The Constitution gives the national Government a responsibility to do capacity building to the counties. We should note that if we allow counties to be managed by unqualified people, then we will lose a lot of money. I know counties are trying to attract professionals. The Committee raised challenges within the IFMIS. It is a financial system that has been used for quite some time and we should look at how we can improve it. There has always been a claim that the system is not working in tandem with the expectations. It has happened in Parliament in the last one-and-a-half-months and nothing has been going on because the IFMIS has been shut down. It is a primitive way of looking at it. It must be looked at how best it can be improved so that it can be used on a day to day basis. The Committee also noted the delayed Exchequer releases. A few minutes ago, Hon. Lessonet, the Chair of the Constituencies Development Fund (CDF) Committee had an issue and claimed that they have not received any money from the National Treasury. The National Treasury should abide by the timelines to release funds either to the counties or respective Government Ministries on time so that people can do proper planning. If you release an Exchequer late, then it will be difficult for people to accomplish what they wanted to do. It is unfortunate that most of the time, the Auditor-General’s Report is not qualified in the sense that whenever there are missing documents, he reports that there is misappropriation. His Report needs to be qualified because, at times, you might put across a statement, but fail to clean it up. The Auditor-General should be able to exhaustively handle a query. On poor implementation of Government projects, that has been done particularly because of funding---"
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