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    "id": 859016,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Wajir North, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Ibrahim Ahmed",
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        "legal_name": "Ahmed Abdisalan Ibrahim",
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    "content": "Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, the issue of the quality of audits was also well raised. We have noted that all outsourced audit assignments have revealed unqualified reports while State corporations have been observed to have a number of issues. A good example was the Kenya Power and Lighting Company. If you look at the Financial Year 2012/2013 running all the way to the Financial Year 2016/2017, they are given a clean bill of health. However, currently as we are speaking, senior managers are prosecuted for economic crimes. That tells you that there is a lot that is happening. I am cognisant of the fact that Section 23 of the Public Audit Act mandates the Auditor-General’s Office to outsource audit services. However, when you look at Section 23(8), outsourcing of any audit services under this section shall not absolve the Auditor-General of any responsibility concerning the exercise of his or her powers under the Public Audit Act. If you look at the 19th Report of the PIC, this House has resolved that audit assignments for strategic State corporations should not be outsourced. However, the Auditor-General has still continued to outsource audit for strategic State corporations, especially the energy sector. Our recommendation remains the same that the audit for strategic State corporations must be directly conducted by the Auditor-General himself and not outsourced. Article 226(4) of the Constitution clearly states that the accounts of the Auditor-General’s Office shall be audited and reported by a professionally qualified accountant appointed by the National Assembly. So, it is the responsibility of the National Assembly to ensure that it appoints an auditor to audit the work of the Auditor-General also. I guess the chairman has donated some minutes and I can see there is a red light. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, as the chairman has correctly mentioned, because of this…"
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