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    "content": "Mr. Speaker, Sir, let me give you one of the charges as we lay down that introduction. Every county government operates financial management software which has two components: the Integrated Financial Management System (IFMIS) and the Internet Banking (IB) component. Whenever there are commitments which the county government is supposed to pay, for instance, non-discretionally commitments such as salaries, they are always in the financial part of the IFMIS system where those commitments are made. However, if there is no money in the accounts of that county government at Central Bank, those commitments will exist in the system. However, if you want to know whether those payments have been made or not, you will go to a different platform known as the IB platform. This is the platform which shows the actual payment figures. At any point in time, if you print the IB platform which shows the various debits to the accounts of the county government at the Central Bank and if you print the extract of the IFMIS, you will see that there will always be variance. There must be a variance given the way the county public finance management system works. For us, we are saying there is a variance while they are saying Kshs70billion has not been accounted for. They are saying there is a variance in the system. The report which was used by the Controller of Budget to prepare this explanation is based on the IFMIS component and not the IB component which shows the actual component which has been made from the system. We will be asking later on, in terms of evidence, that this House summons the Controller of Budget because we want to see the truth. Is there some money which the County Government of Nyeri has not accounted for? They talked about Kshs352million. If you look at Kshs352million from the documents which were submitted by the county treasury, that figure is not there. We will demonstrate that in the evidence. The county treasury submits a report to the county assembly, which picks it, does its own analysis and prepares a completely different figure. Based on their own figure, they say that the Governor has contravened the law. The evidence which has been submitted shows that every expenditure can be accounted for because Nyeri County Government is advanced in terms of implementing the Integrated Financial Management Information System (IFMIS). So, there is no possibility at all that such huge sums of money cannot be accounted for. These are explanations because the other reason we are saying that this impeachment is baseless. This is because the County Assembly could have exercised other alternative measures. For instance, did they summon the County Executive Committee (CEC) member for Finance to explain these issues? Did they summon the Governor to appear before the Assembly to explain these issues? Was such a letter received from the Assembly to the Executive? Why do you rush by going through an impeachment yet you have not exhausted the available mechanisms which are provided for in law? Secondly, most of these issues are issues contained in the Controller of Budget Report which are pending before this House. There are audit queries which have been raised and they are pending before this House. So, in the absence of an explanation in terms of answering these queries, can an impeachment process ensue at this point in time? The Senate has not looked at these issues in terms of addressing the audit queries yet Members of the County Assembly (MCAs) are saying that they want to impeach the Governor because there is a wrongdoing. It is our submission that these impeachment proceedings are extremely premature and have no basis in law. We will be demonstrating, through evidence, that if you examine the The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposes only. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate."
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