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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "South Imenti, Independent",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Kathuri Murungi",
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    "content": " So, the SFAC is a Select Committee which was established pursuant to the National Assembly Standing Order No.205A. It is one of the three watchdog Committees of this House, the other two being the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) and the Public Investments Committee (PAC). I want to be very brief on some of these points and cut some of the issues. At a broader level, the Committee principally relied on the following laws to come up with this Report... Let me go on record to mention that this Report is comprised of 51 audited accounts. Nairobi City County has 17 constituencies. So, we have worked on the Financial Year 2013-2014, which is covered in one Report, the accounts for 2014-2015 and 2015-2016 financial years are covered by one Report each. So, we have accumulated three Reports for every constituency in Nairobi City County. That is what we will be moving to do across the country. We have agreed as a Committee to handle these Reports county by county. We have now done away with Nairobi. Kisumu County will come in the next two weeks. We will then move to the other counties. As I move this Report, notice that my Committee has worked tirelessly to come up with these 51 audited Reports which we are presenting today. This is a very sensitive Report because people out there think that the responsibility to manage the NG-CDF rests on the MPs. I want to tell the nation that MPs are nowhere in the NG-CDF. Members of Parliament just provide oversight. The people who have been appearing before the Committee are the Fund Account Managers because they hold the Authority to Incur Expenditure (AIE). Therefore, MPs just provide oversight to what the Fund Account Managers do. We relied on the Constitution of Kenya, the National Government-Constituencies Development Fund Act (No.30 of 2015), the Public Finance Management (PFM) Act (No.18 of 2012), the Public Procurement and Asset Disposal Act (No.33 of 2015), the Public Audit Act (No.34 of 2015), the Parliamentary Powers and Privileges Act, 2017, the National Assembly Standing Orders, the National Government Constituencies Development Fund Act, 2016 and the Public Finance Management Regulations, 2015. My Committee expresses its appreciation to the Office of the Speaker and the Office of the Clerk of the National Assembly for the support extended to us during consideration of the audit reports. The Committee also extends its appreciation to the Office of the Auditor General, who is our agent. That office is an agent of this House. Therefore, we really extend our appreciation to his office and the Office of the National Treasury for the technical support they gave us. I also want to thank MPs from Nairobi City County, who also came in to listen to how their Fund Account Managers responded to the queries from the Auditor General. They are now up to speed on whatever issues came up. The Reports of the Auditor General for the NG-CDF for the 290 constituencies in Kenya had not been examined prior to the establishment of this Committee, which goes back to the year 2013-2014. This Report contains observations, findings and recommendations derived from Committee’s examination of the 51 Reports that I talked about. That is what is contained in the big Report that we have with us. Article 226(5) of the Constitution of Kenya 2010 provides that if the holder of any public office, including a political office, directs or approves the use of public funds contrary to the law or instructions, the person is liable for any loss arising from that use and shall make good the loss, whether the person remains the holder of the office or not. This formed the basis that the Committee used to hold each Fund Account Manager and any other public officer directly and 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."
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