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    "content": "something that with a little induction, the county assemblies can take care of. The work of this House and particularly our Committee, is to try and look at the value for money audits. Madam Temporary Speaker, as I support this Motion, I reiterate that the Committee, as currently constituted, will table all reports, particularly for the Financial Year 2013/ 2014, in fact, within three weeks. We will not waste our time. We will also submit reports for the Financial Year 2014/2015. We were deliberating on whether to submit regional reports, because these auditors are given about six or seven counties to go through. Sometimes when we go through all those issues, we find that there are issues that we should not waste time on. Some of the issues that were very clear in the Nakuru County Report had to do with internal audit committees. These are things that cut across all other counties. I even suggested to our Chairperson that all we need to do is to write to our counterparts at the county assemblies and ensure that they give us an update on whether those internal audit committees have been established by the county governments. This is because once they do that, it will put us in a position where we can tell Kenyans that out of the amount that was sent to the counties, “X” amount was used prudently and “X” amount was misappropriated. The people on the ground will come out and tell us whether we are right. It is a complete waste of time when we now go back to look into post mortem reports; things that happened in the Financial Year 2013/2014, when we are in the 2018. However, the reality is that, that is the way the law is. That is the work we are supposed to be doing. Of course, we need to bring in some creativity in ensuring that governors are accountable for the money sent to them. This will help reduce on the wastage of public funds. Madam Temporary Speaker, as I wind up, I wish to reiterate one issue that the Chairperson spoke about on the penalties which were charged to these county governments, particularly Nakuru, by the Kenya Revenue Authority (KRA). This is something that should not be happening. The national Government, the county governments and all these agencies should be working together. However, when we have pending bills--- Earlier on we were talking about approval of a Schedule for that money to be sent. I hope that my dear sister, the Senator for Nakuru, is taking notes, so that she can follow up and say: “Alright, we approved the Schedule and we are discussing about the audit reports for the previous year. There were penalties by KRA. Why did these penalties come in place? Was the money there?” For instance, if the national Government deducted about Ksh1.4 billion and the explanation was that this money was used to pay for salaries of staff that had been forwarded, then it is important for us to know whether when they were deducting that, they also remitted the money to KRA, so that the burden is not sent to the County Government of Nakuru. Madam Temporary Speaker, with those few remarks, I beg to second."
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