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    "speaker_name": "Sen. M. Kajwang'",
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        "legal_name": "Moses Otieno Kajwang'",
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    "content": "are on the Order Paper awaiting division, and 26 reports are the subject of today’s Motion. It would then be expected that for the two FYs 2013/2014 and 2014/2015, we would lay on the table of the House 94 reports. I can account for the remaining 21 reports. The pending 20 reports have been written and are awaiting adoption. They were part of a retreat that CPAIC took about three weeks ago. It is our expectation that by the end of this session, CPAIC will have closed the chapter for the first two financial years of devolution. It must also go on record that the first Senate did a lot of good work in terms of defining the space, mandate, job description of CPAIC and affirming the oversight role of the Senate, particularly on financial operations of counties. Unfortunately, we were unable to adopt a single report in the last Senate. We now have 63 reports before the House, and 20 reports that are at different stages of report writing and adoption. We hope to focus on much more recent financial years when we start the new Session. A few issues have been raised in the reports that are before us, and I am aware that we will be discussing a matter of national importance at 5.00 p.m. Therefore, you will allow me to be very brief in my observations. These reports are focusing on the FY 2013/2014, hence some of the things might have been overtaken by events. This House has adopted the Fiduciary Risks Report, which summarizes all these issues as from 2013 to 2015. These reports speak of illegalities, breaches of the Constitution and violation of various statutes. Some of them are a violation of the Intergovernmental Relations Act, where county governments continue to make payments to the Council of Governors (CoGs), which is then used to take the Senate and other Government agencies to court. These are the illegalities that we have clearly pointed out. However, that is a small thing compared to the other illegalities that we have seen, in terms of breaches of the Public Procurement and Disposal Act and the Public Finance Management Act. For every illegality, we have made recommendations that investigations should be undertaken with a view of prosecuting those found culpable. We are very cognizant that the Senate, in itself, cannot render verdict or jail somebody. That then goes to the expectation that many people have had around our work as CPAIC. There have been questions like: “Why is so and so still walking around free, when the Auditor-General has said that they embezzled public funds?” We have been guided by this House and I do recall a Report that I brought to this House, and the House reminded my Committee that it is not the place of Parliament to render verdict on someone’s culpability or guilt. We were told that it has to be established through investigation and subsequent prosecution. These reports have a cocktail of stories of theft, corruption and rampant plunder. Some of my Members, particularly those who are endowed as a result of drinking too much milk and meat, like Sen. Olekina, have always thought that we need to deal with the governors there and then. That is because of the annoyance and bewilderment that comes when we see the colossal amounts of money that the Auditor-General says has been misapplied. The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate."
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