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    "content": "House. If they do not appear before us, our constitutional responsibility is simply to confirm the audit charges and leave those governors to face the other agencies of Government. 23. Finally, Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, the Committee requested the Office of the Auditor-General to carry out a special audit on Kirinyaga County Executive. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, having made those general observations, I would like to go to the Committee’s recommendations. The recommendations are limited to our observations of these 10 counties. These recommendations may extend as we give reports from the other counties that we shall table here in a matter of weeks. (1) The Committee recommends that county governments should strive to submit documents to the Auditor-General at the time of audit in accordance with the Public Audit Act, 2015. (2) All recruitment of county government staff should be done in accordance with the law. (3) Staff rationalization should be undertaken as a matter of priority to ensure prudent use of resources. (4) County governments should recruit competent staff and ensure that they are continuously trained for better work output. This will be aided by the human resources development and capacity building initiatives that we will pass in the current Division of Revenue Bill. (5) Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, the capacity of county assembly should be built for oversight purposes. Quite a number of county assemblies have been compromised by the executive not to perform their oversight function. (6) County governments should adopt proper record keeping mechanisms in order to enhance accountability. (7) County governments should exercise prudence in the monies used for foreign travel. (8) If county governments should continue to remit funds to the CoG, an appropriate law should be put in place to deal with the shortcomings of the existing law. Failure to that, there should be strict compliance to the Intergovernmental Act. (9) Adequate funds should be allocated to the office of the Auditor-General in order to perform its functions adequately. (10) Professional running of the county governments should be observed by all governors. I insist “professional running of county governments.” There are sad cases where governors who should be provided security by the state and where possible, County Service Boards should employ security for them, governors employ goons who they pay from dubious sources. These goons terrorize people. On one case in my county, goons had the temerity to climb 10 floors to frog march a county officer out of his office because of the non-payment of their dues. Their dues are not budgeted for. This is not professional running of a county; it is a mafia-style of running an organization. It is not based on law or any other proper procedure passed by legislative institutions of a nation. I request law-enforcement agencies to take this mater very seriously. We cannot begin devolution on a wrong footing of turning counties into mafia- run entities. Governors, through ill-gotten wealth, are using this kind of thing. 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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