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"content": "Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir. It is quite interesting to hear Sen. M Kajwang’ speaking in a very comical manner, trying to demonstrate how fires are started. It is curious, of course, that these fires seem to only happen at the finance departments. However, this is not the first time that this is happening. Mr. Speaker, Sir, I rise to support this Statement for investigation. You will remember that when Joe Aketch was the Mayor of Nairobi it also happened. The documents were burned. Actually, almost half of the City Hall burnt, but only around where the documents were kept. That means that it is a pre-conceived idea, so that people are able to cover up for misappropriations when audits are supposed to be done. Therefore, Mr. Speaker, Sir, this statement is very important, because it also speaks to the issue of recordkeeping. We need to come up with a system, as country, where such documents are stored electronically. This is because when people know you can still retrieve such documents, where they are secured in the i-cloud, even if they are to destroy the physical evidence in terms of receipts and what have you, they would have already been scanned and we can still go ahead and carry out an audit. Further to that – and I think Sen. M. Kajwang’ can agree with me on this – is basically our preoccupation with what we call financial audits. It is also important for us to do performance audits, so that we do not just look at how money was spent, but also whether work was actually done. This is because even if one was to destroy documents and demonstrate that work was done, then it would be evidential. However, now that we are very much preoccupied with receipts, bank statements and what have you, we can see this kind of behaviour. Mr. Speaker, Sir, this is a matter of concern, and it should be arrested now. This is because if it happened in the defunct local government, it is also happening with the new counties, which we expected would be more sophisticated. It could, therefore, also happen in future. With those few remarks, I support."
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