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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Ichung’wah",
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        "legal_name": "Anthony Kimani Ichung'Wah",
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    "content": "Thank you for that protection. I was drawing your attention to Article 226(4) of the Constitution which clearly stipulates the work of appointing an auditor. The Leader of the Majority Party has alluded to the fact that, that auditor probably could even have been appointed and contracted to do this work. The Constitution is very clear that this is a mandate solely of the National Assembly. I think the drafters of the Constitution are very clear. It was drafted and put in print that a qualified accountant will be appointed by the National Assembly and not Parliament. Hon. Keynan sits in the Commission and with all due respect to your Office as the Speaker and the Chair of the PSC, I think the PSC has taken over the mandate of this Assembly because that role of appointing the auditor should be vested in the National Assembly and not any other constitutional body that has representation of Members. The Commission that you chair and which Hon. Keynan sits in has other Members who are not Members of the National Assembly. I seek your guidance on what could be a procedural error. I know it is something that started way back in 2013 when this House appointed the audit firm. More fundamentally is the fact that the audit firm that we are being asked to come and rubberstamp is an audit firm that was given work to do by this House in 2013. We have never seen a single report of the work done by that audit firm. More fundamentally, and I will say this as an accountant and somebody who has been audited and also has been involved in the auditing processes, you cannot be given work as an auditor to go and audit an organization and then you get consultancy work within the same 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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