Entry Instance

HTTP 200 OK
Allow: GET, PUT, PATCH, DELETE, HEAD, OPTIONS
Content-Type: application/json
Vary: Accept

{
    "id": 768583,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/768583/?format=api",
    "text_counter": 68,
    "type": "other",
    "speaker_name": "",
    "speaker_title": "",
    "speaker": null,
    "content": "The county should establish - as I have said earlier - Internal Audit Committee and also strengthen the internal audit function in line with Section 155 of the Public Finance Management (PFM) Act 2012. All fund administrators should ensure timely submission of the expenditure reports in line with Section 166 to 168 of the PFM Act 2012. The county treasury should formulate and implement strategies to enhance local revenue collection which is actually an area that needs this House to look into. The counties should reconcile IFMIS and Integrated Payroll and personnel Database (IPPD) data on a monthly basis to enhance accuracy in reporting. I think counties should be able to look into this on monthly basis instead of waiting a whole financial year or quarterly, as is normally the case. The county treasury should liaise with IFMIS directorate for support in application of IFMIS and e-procurement model. The county treasury should also enhance vote-book and budgetary control to ensure that all expenditure is within the approved budget. Mr. Speaker, Sir, as I have said earlier, there is a lot that is happening especially in those counties in terms of how the budgetary provision from the National Government and local revenue that is collected is utilised. The county treasury should liaise with the National Treasury to ensure the funds allocated to the county are released in a timely manner in line with the current disbursement schedule. Having said all that, I am sure Members will be able to contribute to this Motion. I conclude by saying that as I have said earlier that in the last Parliament we really fought that we should give enough money to the counties so that they can run their activities. Unfortunately, according to this report and what we have found out as people who are supposed to oversight those counties, whatever little is allocated is not utilised properly. I think Senate needs to put its foot down and make sure that the monies allocated are utilised in a proper manner and also take up our role as “oversighters” to make sure that the monies are utilised properly and the counties are running without wastage and mismanagement of the resources allocated to them. I now invite Senator Cheruiyot of Kericho County to second this Motion."
}