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"content": "the little that Sen. M. Kajwang’ and his team did in Makueni, I can say on the Floor of this Senate that the unqualified opinion that Makueni County got was not a correct one. This is because certain fundamental questions could not be answered in the meeting. If those questions could not be answered at the beginning of the meeting, it then begs the question of how the Auditor-General gave Makueni County an unqualified opinion. It led to this important aspect because we are not all auditors and we will not go to school, now that we are Senators, to study audit. What are the criteria for an unqualified opinion, qualified opinion, adverse opinion and disclaimer? We Senators must be informed so that we know how to ask appropriate questions. I would like to suggest one more thing: Sen. M. Kajwang’ noticed that we tackled audit reports of Makueni County because I had reports of the Controller of Budget (CoB) and letters showing how much money they have received and the disbursements that have been sent every quarter. Therefore, I was able to tackle them. I suggest that the resolutions of every county in respect to audit reports should be sent to the respective county executives and copied to the Senators. That is the only way we will use that platform politically or otherwise, to challenge our governors on the use of public resources. This afternoon, we were talking about debt. There are two things that will kill counties; corruption and national debt. Therefore, we must take the bull by its horns. We have a very limited period. Unfortunately, in another one year from now, people will be campaigning for different positions. Others will climb down while others will climb up. Therefore, we will not have adequate attention to detail. People will start concentrating on elections. I suggest to Sen. M. Kajwang’ - I will put this to Senate Business Committee (SBC) - that every day we sit for the next one year, until that time that I envision that we will be campaigning, there should be a report here. If you have 50 reports, you should table one. Let us have one report every day. We can set aside 2:30 p.m. to 3:00 p.m. every sitting day for a report to be tabled. If we cannot finish, I will suggest that we make a sacrifice and sit on Wednesday mornings to tackle this business. Let us not go to our counties at the end of this term with pending reports of the CPAIC. I would like to carry a dossier about misuse of resources and take it to Makueni County. The way they reacted in Makueni about what Sen. M. Kajwang’ did for just about three hours gives me so much courage. I am full of weapon because I could see panic. Something important also happened when we were in Kitui and I said it to the Governor and it is on record. I would like to say this on record for purposes of the rest of the Senators. Somebody was brave enough to approach the Members of the CPAIC anonymously as a whistleblower to point out corruption in Makueni County. That means, we the Senate have acted in such a way that people out there trust us to deal with matters in the counties. I would also like to receive a dossier of Sen. Mwangi’s county anonymously or otherwise. I congratulate Sen. M. Kajwang’ for accepting an anonymous document because we should not prescribe rules. 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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