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    "id": 943992,
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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Kibiru",
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        "legal_name": "Charles Reubenson Kibiru",
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    "content": "counties that is in the current Report, we have issues of exaggerated construction figures, casual employees and the like; and proper recommendations have been made. Perusing through the report, there are glaring areas where we have recommended that whoever was in charge be investigated, and that the proper legal processes should take place. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I would want to look at the Report in a more general way. In the process of us looking at those reports – and we are very good at looking at those reports these days – we have come across a number of issues. One, I keep on asking myself who audits the Auditor-General, because his staff are Kenyans, just like everybody else. I say so because an auditor goes to Kirinyaga County, for instance, and decides on the sampling they are going to do. We have seen, especially during the last financial year, that every other county has got an opinion that is almost favourable. They are now moving from disclaimer and adverse opinion to now almost getting an unqualified opinion. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, one then wonders what goes on in that process. When we get those reports and we have an unqualified opinion, for instance, one would imagine that the process was good and everything else is good. However, when we dig deeper, there is a lot of misappropriation of public funds. This is to the extent, like the Chair will always say, we start wondering whether the process or the standards that were used by the Auditor-General are actually meant for our setup in this country. One of the proposals that we probably need to make as a Senate, so that we can cure this issue is, what I was discussing with Sen. Mutula Kilonzo Jnr. We should have a pre-audit stakeholders’ forum."
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