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"content": "doing this in accordance with the mandate of our Committee. May I, before I go into the details of my Report, reconfirm to the House that the Committee was reconstituted during the Third Session of the Tenth Parliament in June 2009, when Parliamentary Standing Orders came into force and it comprises of myself as the Chairman, Dr. Kones as the Vice-Chairman, hon. David Muoki, MP, hon. Charles Onyancha, MP, hon. Alex Mwiru, MP, hon. Boaz Kaino, MP, hon. Francis Chachu Ganya, MP, hon. Dr. Nuh Nasri Abdi, MP, hon. David Ngugi, MP and hon. Edick Anyanga, MP. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, on the workload of this Committee, it will be noted that in the previous years, the Committee had a huge backlog of the Controller and Auditor- General’s reports to deal with. This was mainly occasioned by a relatively weak parliamentary committee system from the time of Independence until the late 1990s, when there were constitutional reforms that saw the strengthening of Parliament as an institution, through the establishment of the Parliamentary Service Commission (PSC). I am, today, indeed, very glad to report to the House that with the tabling of these reports; 2006/2007 and the ones that will follow tomorrow of 2007/2008, my Committee has now cleared the entire backlog and is now up to date in the examination of the reports of the Controller and Auditor-General. Hon. Members are upbeat in examining the reports for the 2008/2009 Financial Year. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, allow me to thank the entire membership of this Committee and previous Committees for their good work, hard earned in terms of credit and commitment, and without which the backlog would have continued to be bogging down this Committee and Parliament. By way of evidence taking, the Committee held a total of 100 sittings during the period under review; 95 per cent of which involved examining the accounting officers on audit queries raised by the Controller and Auditor-General. The Committee also discussed cross-cutting issues with the Big Five; namely, the Attorney-General, the Head of the Public Service and Secretary to the Cabinet, the Permanent Secretaries in charge of Ministries of Finance and that of State for Public Service and the Controller and Auditor- General. The Committee also took evidence from the Accounting Officer, Interim Independent Electoral Commission of Kenya (IIECK) on the Controller and Auditor- General’s reports for the financial years 2004/2005 and 2005/2006, which my Committee could not take the previous year as the ECK had been disbanded by this House. All minutes of the Committee sittings on evidence taking are attached to this particular Report. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, the Electoral Commission of Kenya (ECK) accounts for 2004/2005 and 2006/2007 financial years are also attached. The Committee received both oral and documentary evidence during its sittings and made fact finding tours where necessary to collect additional evidence. The fact finding tours made involved Custom Bonded Warehouses in Mombasa where goods worth custom value of Kshs679,046,383 and worth Kshs566,428,551 could not be accounted for. We also made tours in respect of projects for rehabilitation and reconstruction of the Machakos turn-off, Jomo Kenyatta International Airport (JKIA) section of the Nairobi – Mombasa Road. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, on the new Constitution, it restructures the Kenya National Audit Office (KENAO) by creating two new offices under the office, namely;"
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