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    "id": 683502,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/683502/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Kipyegon",
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        "legal_name": "Johana Ngeno Kipyegon",
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    "content": "Another area I noted regards the Accounting Officers. Most of them are totally incompetent. The mode of their employment is not serious because in some instances people who are appointed Accounting Officers are not qualified for the job. In other instances, people are qualified for the job but they are incompetent or they have integrity issues. Many people who deal with accounting matters in the national Government and county governments use the opportunity to make money for themselves. Most of the areas these Accounting Officers are meant to scrutinize are the ones where billions have been spent. Kenyans are not patriotic and the Accounting Officers who are supposed to scrutinize the accounts for particular ministries and departments have decided to ‘eat’ from there. As the saying goes ‘every goat eats where the rope reaches’. Therefore, there is a very serious problem with the competence of Accounting Officers. On the area of free primary and day secondary education, there are a lot of funds being misused. You can imagine we have always talked about free day secondary education, but students are still charged. This is the case and yet we give bursaries to those students studying in day schools. If the policy is that every student who is in a day secondary school must not pay anything, you wonder where the money parents and Members of Parliament pay go. The amount of money students pay is not accounted for nationally. Free primary education funds which are sent to those schools are not seriously accounted for especially in areas where there is inflated enrollment. It has become a business for principals to inflate enrollment and nobody accounts for the money sent to those schools. In some schools you will find the real numbers are not correlating with the ones sent by the authorities. This particular area must be looked at seriously. There is also lack of coordination between the PSs and the Accounting Officers. As we speak today, there is a constitutional office under Article 154 of the Constitution which has not been occupied and that is the Secretary to the Cabinet. The last person I saw in that office was Prof. Kimemia. No one has occupied it since he left. I do not know whether there is no Kenyan who is qualified to be in that office. That is the person who is supposed to coordinate the Cabinet. I believe that is why there is no proper coordination between the Permanent Secretaries (PSs) and the Accounting Officers."
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