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    "id": 742778,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/742778/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Keynan",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 41,
        "legal_name": "Adan Wehliye Keynan",
        "slug": "adan-keynan"
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    "content": "The fourth recommendation is, three months after the end of this financial year, the Auditor-General should publish and publicise the names of State corporations that have not submitted their complete financial statements as required. The Auditor-General is, by law, required to submit audited statements within a specific time. Therefore, if any State entity does not comply and fails to assist our auditors in meeting this particular objective, then its name must be published so that every Kenyan knows the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) who does not give information to the Auditor- General’s office The fifth recommendation is that the Auditor-General should not accept any document submitted after the end of six months at the end of each financial year and instead submit the audited statements to the National Assembly as stipulated in Article 229(4) of the Constitution. The other issue that we noted is delay in appointment of board members. This is a worrying issue. It is one issue that many CEOs have taken advantage of. The appointment of board members is clearly stipulated under the State Corporations Act and, therefore, the appointing authority, whether it is the President, the Cabinet Secretary or any other official, must ensure that at any given time, should there be a vacancy, Kenyans who are highly qualified, must be appointed. The existing lacuna allows some individuals to fleece taxpayers’ money and mess the finances of critical State corporations. Therefore, our recommendation is that the CEO should ensure that imprest advanced to the board members is recovered within the stipulated time. The other recommendation is that CEOs must immediately take the necessary measures to ensure that outstanding imprest is paid. We also realised that since many individuals from different backgrounds are appointed to sit on boards of State corporations, some of them join with the agenda of fleecing the organisations. They neither surrender imprest nor account for it. Whatever they do, it is like they have become a law unto themselves. This issue must be addressed as a matter of urgency. This country has come up with critical documents, for example, the Mwongozo document. The provisions in the Mwongozo document have been disregarded and that is worrying. Therefore, our recommendation is that the Government should ensure that State corporations operate within the law and where there is a lacuna in the law, they should follow the strict interpretation of the Mwongozo rules."
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