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"content": "Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I thank you for giving me this opportunity. I stand to support the Motion. I would like to state that I am a Member of the Committee. As I contribute to the Motion, I want to inform Prof. Anyang’-Nyong’o, who has spoken, that we are not talking about historical accounts here. For his benefit, we are basically current. This Committee has covered the audited accounts for the Government of Kenya from the year 2004 to the year 2009. We are finalising the accounts for financial year 2008/2009 and, very soon, we will start the accounts for financial year 2009/2010. So, for his information, we are very much on top of things and we are discussing a very current audit report. We are dealing with the current Accounting Officers of the various Ministries. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, if you look at this voluminous Report, you will still see a lot of wastage of public resources. There are so many incidents of rampant corruption, and this needs to be dealt with. Even now, the culture of impunity and lack of fiscal discipline is very much inherent amongst our Accounting Officers. It is time we had value for money audit, instead of the procedural audit that we do every year. We do not have a real performance audit, whereby we get real value for money; for services rendered or from goods procured. It is time we moved towards performance audit and go for value for money audit. It is very clear from this document that we still lack clear policy on recovery of Government dues from officers. I have sat in this Committee for three years now. The same audit queries keep recurring because we have no policy dealing with the particular problem of officers who have passed on, but who had not paid their dues while they were alive. We need a clear policy in this regard, so that we can clear this off our records and be able to move on. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, we also lack a clear policy on bailing out our ailing state corporations. While some state corporations are quickly, and conveniently, bailed out, others are left to struggle year in, year out. Most of the time, political considerations come in, instead of economic prudence. It is time that, as Government, we have a clear policy on what to do with our ailing state corporations in terms of bailing them out, while looking at the economic sense of doing so and looking at the services rendered to this nation. It is very important for Kenya Anti-Corruption Commission (KACC) and the Criminal Investigations Department (CID) to implement our recommendations. We look upon them to take on board issues where we feel that there is need for further investigation so that those who committed economic crimes can be arrested and taken to court. Year in, year out, we have made recommendations, but most of them are yet to be fully implemented by the Government. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, with the new Constitution in place, the culture of impunity is over. It is time our officers became responsible and did what is"
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