{"id":805610,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/805610/?format=json","text_counter":424,"type":"speech","speaker_name":"Hon. Ichung’wah","speaker_title":"","speaker":{"id":1835,"legal_name":"Anthony Kimani Ichung'Wah","slug":"anthony-kimani-ichungwah"},"content":"This is the Recurrent Expenditure of the Office of the Auditor-General. This is the first State Department which appeared before the Budget and Appropriations Committee. We allocated them an additional Kshs1billion which goes towards Kshs450,000,000 for their Development Expenditure to allow them to complete projects in regional offices that they started in Eldoret, Kakamega and Embu. We also allocated them a further Kshs280,000,000 for consultancy for a Public Partnerships Project (PPP) that they are doing for their office in Upper Hill. Then there was a further Kshs550 million that was to go to capacity building, hire of more staff and taking of consultancy and audit firms to enhance their capacity especially in this era of fighting corruption. Most of the work submitted by the Auditor-General emanates from this House and the Senate. Many of our departmental committees and oversight committees, the Public Investments Committee and Public Accounts Committee, have been asking the Auditor- General for forensic audits. Even this afternoon we heard the Leader of the Majority Party speak about a forensic audit of the mall in Kisumu. Out of these many requests, they had sought more The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposes only. Acertified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."}