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"content": "Corruption Commission (EACC), if we think that public resources have been squandered or misapplied, that they should investigate further and bring the culprits to book without any mercy. This is because we cannot accept a situation where we are fighting so hard to give resources to the counties only for them to be misappropriated in one form or the other. Therefore, you will be able to find out when you skim through the Report. The fifth point that we noted as part of the Report is poor records and books of accounts. When we looked at how they are representing the expenditures in their books of accounts, you have heard of the famous story when we were looking at the accounts, we found some expenditure heads reading State House expenditures. That is typical of Kiambu, and I think the story has sunk enough and I do not need to belabour the point. It is not only Kiambu. I think it was also the same in Kakamega. How on earth do you find State House expenses budget being reflected in a county government? We have a feeling that when they saw that lacuna, they said the national Treasury made a mistake. We interviewed the Cabinet Secretary for National Treasury and his team and they said that they recognised that mistake, but that the records had not been updated. However, how do you spend money which does not belong to you? We think that is one window through which money was misappropriated. We have made appropriate recommendation, and the culprits must face the full force of the law. We think that, that is the wrong representation of these Reports to this House. Therefore, the House must take a very firm stand. I leave it to you to make your judgement."
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