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    "content": "created. The main objective of this forum would be to work jointly to ensure that financial accountability in the public sector is enhanced. The Committee’s desire is necessitated by the fact that the Controller and Auditor-General only comes in to audit at the end of the financial year when the financial impropriety has been committed and the Government has already lost financially. With such a forum in place, our assumption is that it will be possible to develop a preventive line of action aimed at saving the public from actual financial loss and ensuring adherence to the Government’s financial regulations and procedures. Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, towards this end, the Committee seeks your approval and support to spearhead the process of the creation of such a forum. Before I conclude, I would like to highlight a few sticky issues that we found in this financial year. The first one is; just like in the previous year, the public continues to pay the debt of KENREN which was incurred in the 1970s. During the financial year under review, Kshs169 million was paid. The remarks we made last week are still applicable to this particular one. The next highlight is about the amount of deliberate theft that public officers get involved in when procuring goods and services. I would ask hon. Members to look at page 150, paragraphs 45, 46, 47, 48, and 49. I am using these paragraphs as an example to show this House how procurement is done irregularly. In this case, bitumen worth Kshs77 million was procured. The procurement documents were done in the normal way. The bitumen was assumed to have been delivered at Wilson Airport and yet there was none delivered at the airport. Even a proforma invoice was raised for Kshs77.4 million and payment was made. So, until KACC came in and people started back-peddling, that is when some form of delivery started being made by senior officers of the Ministry. In the process, there is no evidence that can be accessed by the Controller and Auditor-General to ascertain how much bitumen was subsequently delivered long after payment had been made against the proforma invoices. Had the KACC not moved in, these guys would still be sitting high and pretty. They would have pocketed Kshs74.4 million without a question. They have managed to pocket part of that money because up to today, the Office of the Controller and Auditor-General is unable to ascertain the little deliveries that were made belatedly. I would like hon. Members to see that kind of direct theft that goes on in about all our Ministries."
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