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    "id": 979019,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/979019/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mbooni, Independent",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Erastus Nzioka",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 13433,
        "legal_name": "Erastus Kivasu Nzioka",
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    "content": "Corruption Commission (EACC) had commenced investigations regarding amounts totaling to Kshs16,709,882 given to various project-implementing agencies that were subject to audit query. It is on this basis that the Committee recommended that the Water Sector Trust Fund Board avails adequate resources and tools to strengthen, monitoring and evaluation of projects under implementation, to ensure conformity with the law. In addition, EACC should fast-track all ongoing investigations of the Fund and submit a status report to the National Assembly, within three months of adoption of this Report by this House. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, the Committee observed that most audit queries under the Agricultural Settlement Fund Trustees Fund remained unresolved given that the Ministry of Lands and Physical Planning was relying on manual records to reconstruct the accounts of the fund whose process was still ongoing during the period under review. This was as a result of crashing of the main-frame computer in the F/Y 1994/1995 when the fund was managed under the National Treasury, resulting into usage of a block opening balance without supporting documents to prepare financial statements in the FY 2007/2008 by the Ministry of Lands and Physical Planning when it took over the management of the Fund. Based on the findings, the Committee recommended that the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) investigates the operations of the Fund as to the veracity of loss of documents as alleged by the Fund and to take action against any officers managing the Fund, whether current or past, for breach of Section 68, Sub-Section 2 (b) and (c) of the Public Finance Management Act 2012, which requires all financial and accounting records kept in any form to be adequately protected and backed-up. The Committee also undertook field visits in farms purchased to settle IDPs at a cost of Kshs4,076,800,380, which was subject to audit query. The objectives of the visits were to conduct a physical verification of the information supplied by the accounting officer pertaining to the size and ownership of land purchased under the IDP program and to ascertain the actual beneficiaries settled in the purchased farms. The visits were undertaken in four farms located in Bonde Village, Suwera Location, Cherangany Constituency in Trans- Nzoia East Sub-county as well as various farms is Rongai and Kisima areas in Nakuru County. From the field visits in the two counties, the Committee found the following: (i) Sub-division of the land in Kisima Farm in Nakuru County and Bonde Farm in Trans- Nzoia County was yet to be concluded despite the Presidential Directive of 25th September 2009. (ii) Failure by the Ministry of Lands and Physical Planning to conclude surveying and sub-division of purchased land and issuance of title deeds, which had led to IDPs…"
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