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    "content": "Hon. Members, in this regard, I find that, when examined in totality, the matter in question at this point falls into two categories. On one hand, the Kenya Airports Authority is a State corporation that is 100 percent owned by the Government. The PIC, is therefore, at liberty to procedurally invoke the provisions of Standing Order 206(6)(c) and examine whether the affairs of the Public Investments Committee made or being made by the KAA and whether they are being managed in accordance with sound financial, business principles and prudent commercial practices. However, in doing so, the Committee ought to follow the usual procedure, particularly as guided in my Communication of 5th December 2013. In that Communication, I did guide that, and I quote: “Should the Committee intend to examine matters of procurement, I would expect them to order a special audit by the Auditor-General after being satisfied that the matter requires a special audit”. This means that, whenever the Committee requests for a special audit, the examination of the matters before the Committee is discontinued, until the special audit is undertaken and tabled in the House. This is informed by the universal dictum that, when a party asks another party to carry out forensic inspection or any other specialised task, then the work of the first party becomes functus officio . This means that, any further examination or even debate in the Committee on the same matters for which a special audit has been requested may vitiate or injure the process of the special audit."
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