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    "content": "governments. This Report has to be the approved by the National Assembly. That is why, as the Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker has said, PAC, unlike other committees, is working to make sure that we provide timely reports so that we do not disadvantage the sharing of revenue between the national Government and the county governments. This Report outlines the various issues that were raised in the over 64 sittings that were held by PAC, tabled on the Floor and is available to the public. This is a call to our honourable colleagues. The fight against corruption and misuse of public resources will not be won in public rallies. It will also not be won in funerals or churches but it will be won when we scrutinise such reports that have been done by professionals and tabled on the Floor of the House. Only then shall we say that we have achieved the levels of integrity and prudent expenditure of Government resources as we should. Kenyans are tired of this rhetoric that we will end the war against corruption and jail people and yet, when facts are laid on the Floor of this House on the evident misuse of public funds, no action is taken against those public officers. Article 226 of our Constitution outlines that State officers will be personally liable. Those are the accounting officers of that who authorised or approved the misuse of public funds. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, because of this, we invited retired civil servants and public officers who have been sent to overseas missions because they have to be accountable to what they did during their terms in office. It really does not matter whether you are transferred from one ministry to the other. To emphasise on that, there is need to have consistency in our public offices and the appointments to the various offices. If someone is incompetent in a particular office, he should not be transferred to another one. It even gives us a lot of work because you ask a State officer a question relating to Financial Year 2015/2016 and you are told he is now an ambassador. For him to access that information and come to present it before the PAC becomes a tall order."
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