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    "content": "contracts. If I will have more time, I will dwell briefly on Ken Ren and also on Anglo Leasing. We recommend that the Office of the Attorney-General should disqualify itself from acting for the Government in all matters in court arising from contracts in which it advised the Government to execute and the Government has been defrauded. Instead, this should be left to the Kenya Anti-Corruption Commission (KACC) which should take over the prosecution of all such matters with immediate effect. We found blatant breach of Government financial regulations and procedures by Accounting Officers appointing authority and recommend that the Permanent Secretary, Office of the Deputy Prime Minister and Ministry of Finance, being the appointing authority of all Accounting Officers, must lead by example by strictly adhering to all Government financial regulations and procedures at all times. We also found out that the new system called Integrated Financial Management Information System (IFMIS) has brought quite a number of financial difficulties. We observed that the introduction of that system was problematic at the time of implementation and it crippled accounting operations in some Ministries. That made it impossible for the Ministries to properly effect certain accounting transactions leading to audit queries and also affected service delivery. Furthermore, the software related to revenue had not been fully operationalized. We have made the following recommendation regarding IFMIS:- The Government should always ensure that operational systems to be introduced are thoroughly evaluated, decided upon and adequate measures put in place to mitigate against any disruption of Government operations. The Government should implement IFMIS in full to cover both revenue and expenditure transactions. Why we are saying that is because in those Ministries where IFMIS has now been successfully implemented, the arm called “expenditure” is very well addressed. However, until you also cover it to apply on revenue, then it is very difficult for the system to be as successful as it was intended in its invention. We also observed that in several instances, we had cases of missing documents and we have recommended that Criminal Investigations Department should investigate all cases of missing documents in this Report with a view to establish their status and prosecute officers responsible for their misplacement, loss or intentional destruction. We also noted that there was need for creation of a forum on financial accountability in the public sector. The Committee observed that it was important that a forum comprising of all players in public financial accountability such as the Legislature, the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister and Ministry of Finance, the Kenya National Audit Office (KNAO), the KACC, Department of Police and Institute of Certified Public Accountants of Kenya (ICPAK) be created. The main objective of the forum could be to work jointly to enhance financial accountability in the public sector. I would like to volunteer information to hon. Members that the process of creating that kind of request that we are making--- If the Government does not have money, the World Bank has volunteered to finance that initiative fully to ensure that, that system becomes successful at no cost at all. The Committee’s desire is necessitated by the fact that the Controller and Auditor-General only comes in to audit at the end of the financial year when financial impropriety has already been committed and the Government has lost financially. With such a forum in place, it will be possible to develop a preventive line of action aimed at"
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