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    "content": "contributions of Tom Mboya, Josiah Mwangi Kariuki, Masinde Muliro and those of Martin Shikuku. They are there. They all spoke on all these reports. In responding to some of the last things that hon. Members raised, I would like to mention the issue of donor funds. Donor funds are treated separately from the Reports which are put here. The reason for this is that I cannot access the evidence I would require because the modus operandi is that the Controller and Auditor-General is expected to audit these reports of donor funds separately and they are supposed to be ready every 31st December, of every calendar year. Whereas that might appear to be a good practice, there is something terrible that is going on in the sense that accounting documents, when it comes to donor funds are limited to reports and letters as supporting documents. Original receipts are not given to the Controller and Auditor-General because the donors require that the original receipts go to the parent country for them to do their accounting. It would, therefore, be important that this is addressed, so that the Controller and Auditor-General can give us a real insight. Courtesy of this wrong practice, at the Ministry of Education, there is Kshs317 million that is not properly accounted for. No wonder, we found out about the loss of Free Primary Education (FPE) Funds early this year. Also, in the Ministry of Education, we noticed that Kshs2.7 billion was returned to the Treasury. How I wish the Minister for Education was here to hear this. In a Ministry like that of education which requires funds, Kshs2.7 billion was returned to the Treasury due to under-expenditure. This cannot be acceptable. If this money was spent, we would have built more than 26 million new classrooms in the country. I am quite sure that this would have disturbed the Minister if he was here. I want to conclude by pointing out the advantages of us having become current. I want to remind my brothers that we are now current. Being current has the following advantages. (i) It means that the quality of our reports will now be enhanced. We will be putting greater emphasis on performance rather than financial auditing and, thereby, giving a clear certificate of value for money audit. This will go a long way. It will not just be a question of money having been spent, but the Controller and Auditor-General will go on the ground to establish whether there was value for money that was taken to the ground. (ii) My Committee will now have more time and money to spend on field visits, so that they can check for themselves that what the Controller and Auditor-General is telling the Committee reflects the truth on the ground. (iii)We will now have more real time reports. By this, I mean that we will now have time to call for special forensic audit, so that when a matter of great national importance comes up, my Committee will sit very quickly, write to the Controller and Auditor- General and tell him that we want a forensic audit into the matter. Since it will be done with real interest and the Accounting Officer will still be in office, the Accounting Officer will neither have been transferred nor died, we will get him on real time basis. With this achievement, we must demand from the electorate to elect a good President for this country. A good President who will do what Jerry Rawlings did in Ghana. He was a President who committed himself to fighting corruption. When he took over, he could announce at 1.00 p.m. every day and he did this for 10 years, call out the name of the"
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