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    "id": 683780,
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    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Eng.) Gumbo",
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        "legal_name": "Nicholas Gumbo",
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    "content": "(iv) Ensuring maintenance of comprehensive asset registers by MDAs. (v) Failed internal audit functions of MDAs. The Committee observed, with a lot of concern that the simple audit queries that end up being reported should have been dealt with internally. It is clear that the internal audit function of the Government is virtually non-existent, does not do its job well as provided for under the Public Audit Act, 2015 and the Public Finance Management Regulations, 2015. The Committee, therefore, recommends that the CS National Treasury revamps with speed this function across the Government to help improve systems and processes. (vi) Prior years’ unresolved matters: In this particular case, we are looking at the Ministry of Defence. The Committee noted with deep concern that the queries touching on the purchase of Armored Personnel Carriers (APCs) by the Ministry of Defence had not been resolved in the subsequent audit accounts of the Auditor-General. The same matters were raised in the Financial Year 2012/2013 and 2013/2014 in the Public Accounts Committee’s (PAC) Report, but the questionable purchases remain unresolved to date. In the circumstances, the Committee strongly apportions blame to the appointing authority for failure to take action against the then Accounting Officer and consequently recommends that the Auditor-General conducts a special audit on matters related under Paragraphs 149, 150 and 151 in the Financial Year 2013/2014 Report over the entire procurement process of all the APCs and report to PAC by 31st December, 2016. We also further recommend stern action, including prosecution to be taken against the officers found culpable for these irregular purchases. (vii) Security/confidential expenditure: The Committee notes that while the Government may from time to time need, on behalf of the citizens of Kenya, to incur confidential expenditure on matters relating to national security, all the money used for that purpose is nevertheless raised from the public of Kenya. Consequently in line with the national best practice, the Committee, therefore, recommends that all MDAs that incur such expenditure be subjected to detail scrutiny by vetted officers acting under oath. (iix) Overstated enrolments in the Ministry of Education: The Committee noted with deep concern that there were rampant falsifications of enrollment figures by head teachers for Free Day Secondary Education (FDSE) and the Free Primary Education (FPE). The Committee observed that it was illegal and culpable for heads of schools to take advantage of funds meant for FDSE and FPE through wrong enrolment records presented to the Government. This is a grave matter because we have evidence to believe that some enrolments presented by heads of schools maybe twice the actual enrolment in those schools yet that results to loss of funds."
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