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    "content": "CoG, lawfully. During the 2013/14 Financial Year, it was done unlawfully and the Committee has made such observation. 15. The Internal audit was ineffective in most counties hence allowing financial mismanagement which could have been avoided. There are instances where governors deliberately weakened internal audit systems or sack internal auditors when they do their work properly or influence them through underhand means. This undermines accountability and proper financial management in counties. A wise governor should have a strong internal audit team to make it possible that when the Auditor-General comes, the books of the county are in proper order. However, they think that they can cut corners with a weak internal audit and they are digging themselves a deep grave. 16. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, the Senate has not been facilitated to perform its oversight role effectively. This is true and it is unfortunate. If we had oversight funds, the work of the committee would have been much easier. However, as it were, we had to do the work of the Senate oversight as well as our work as a Committee which is double jeopardy. 17. There is need to have an oversight structure to enable individual Senators to carry out effective oversight roles in their counties. This cannot be overemphasized. 18. The Office of the Auditor-General is not adequately funded to carry out its mandate. Rather than financing the Auditor-General effectively, he is currently being hounded from office by the Jubilee Regime. This is travesty of the constitutional provisions. This undermines accountability in the whole system of government. It increases rent-seeking if the office of the Auditor-General is not capable of auditing government documents and instead is being hounded for doing the right things; trying to go oversees to audit government’s unlawful expenditure. I hope those trying to hound the Auditor-General from office will wake up and realize that this is a very important institution and it does not matter who occupies it. That institution should be respected and defended and not interpreted as a political office. That is not what the framers of the Constitution intended and is not what a democratic system of government intends the office of the Auditor-General to be. 19. The efficacy of the Integrated Financial Management Information System (IFMIS) is questionable. The current form captures revenue but not expenditure. There are many modules in IFMIS. Unfortunately, not all of those modules are operational, particularly, the modules for operation of both the revenue and expenditure. For accountability in government to work properly, those modules must work in tandem, effectively and efficiently. 20. The work of the committee was delayed for over ten months due to numerous court cases instituted by governors barring the Committee’s power to summon witnesses. 21. Many Governors failed to instill financial management discipline in their officers. Even where financial laws and regulations were contravened by officers, they took no corrective measures including prosecution or disciplinary action that is appropriate on those culpable. By such omission they could become complacent. In one of the instances we realized that a governor never took action, our recommendation was that, that governor should face the law. 22. The governors of Kakamega and Embu counties failed to appear before the committee due to cases in court. We shall make recommendations according to this 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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