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"content": "Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, Sen. Wamatangi has just walked out, instead of keeping time and waiting to listen to this Motion. Moving forward, as a country, let us agree that we need to be accountable. Accountability starts from the resources that we get. When we talk about counties, I like giving an example about organizations and the corporate world, where as the management, you are given what we call in accounting the “Agency Theory.” Shareholders give you the mandate, as the board and the management, to run the affairs of the organization. You are then to report at the end of the financial year through the audited accounts and, for that matter, the audited financial statements. The same applies to the counties. When we elected governors, and the leadership at the national level took over, they got into a social contract with the people, who gave them that mandate. When one is given a contract, they need to respect it. One way of doing so is by accounting for every penny that is given. Over the period I have been in that Committee, many governors have come there and behaved as if they were shocked. It is as if these are new things to them. In Uasin Gishu County, when we told the Governor that he borrowed without consulting the National Assembly and the National Treasury, he got shocked that he was borrowing to buy equipment without consulting. Mr. Deputy Speaker Sir, we need to amend the Public Finance Management (PFM) Act or one of the Acts, so that whoever is governor--- This is something that we can do as a sandwich course, and probably pass legislation that we need to retrain governors, who are the CEOs of the counties, so that they can take the issues of governance seriously. We have seen governors who told us that they have risky framework and policies, and yet when you ask them what that entails, you see them whispering to their staff and asking them what that means. Probably, we did uplift our governors to a level of incompetence. This is because by the time one takes a job, they need to know what the job entails. I am more often disappointed when you see a governor who does not even understand the audit process. In a nutshell, Mr. Deputy Speaker Sir, I am saying that we have been morticians. We are talking about the FY2013/2014. We have complained of being morticians, but as a Committee and as the Chairperson has said, we have tried to expedite some of the work. We are dealing with issues that passed. Unfortunately, the governors who did this probably did not know that some of the issues that we have debated today and the recommendations that we have made will be executed during this time. They probably said, like it has happened before in this country, that some of the audit issues will come in another decade, but here we are. All that we are saying is that some of the measures that have been recommended by the Committee need to be executed. Like I mentioned earlier, the Committee invited liaison officers from the EACC, the DCI and the DPP. This was so that when we make recommendations, the multiagencies can pick the issues and prosecute them as and when the recommendations are made. Having said that, I want to come back to the issue of the health sector. The other day, I saw a newspaper article saying, “The dying Level 4 Hospital in West Pokot.” 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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