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"content": "will escalate to the Committee on Health. The first line of oversight is an individually Senator. Every committee of this House has got an oversight duty and mandate particularly on sectorial issues. If a road project is not going well in your county, you should first to go there as a Senator and escalate the issue to the Committee on Roads and Transportation. If the matter persistently recurs and the Auditor-General points it out, the CPAIC comes in to make punitive recommendations on those who are guilty or found culpable of flouting rules. Madam Temporary Speaker, I encourage this House to take its oversight role collectively and every Senator to take their oversight role individually. Let us not live in the world where we believe that once we have been elected, legislating, representation and oversight are the sole responsibility of one committee. If you look at the Standing Orders, you will see that the mandate of the CPAIC is very postmortem. We are struggling to become proactive. Indeed, just this morning, we had a meeting as a committee to come up with a schedule of appearances for the next two months. We have adopted the approach that counties that attracted disclaimer and adverse opinions in the FY 2017/2018 shall be in our list of counties to be considered. I want to inform the Senator for Nairobi City County that we have scheduled for two days because Nairobi City is a complex county with serious issues. We would like to ensure that we do discussions on the first day and go out to tour projects on the second day. We will take a much more proactive approach because we also realised that Article 229(8) of the Constitution is clear. It states that- “Within three months after receiving an audit report, Parliament or the county assembly shall debate and consider the report and take appropriate action.” Anything we do after three months after tabling of the reports is unconstitutional and one day it will catch up with us."
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