Eng. Nicholas Gumbo

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• 16 Aug 2016 in National Assembly: The Committee, therefore, strongly recommends that it is mandatory for all MDAs to keep comprehensive and up to date assets registers. Accounting Officers who fail to keep assets registers in their respective MDAs will be held personally liable and be compelled to make good the loss of public funds arising from lack of proper assets registers as provided in the Constitution. view
• 16 Aug 2016 in National Assembly: (x) Coordination of One Stop Boarder Post: The Committee noted that many activities at the one stop border posts were uncoordinated. For example, it was observed that every border post was manned by officers from different agencies, such as the police, Immigration, Customs and health among others. Each agency was engaged in its specific core function such that activities that were not clearly defined and assigned to any of the agencies, particularly those activities that affect all the agencies like facilities management were left unattended and virtually uncoordinated. view
• 16 Aug 2016 in National Assembly: The Committee, therefore, strongly recommends that there is a strong need to establish an inter-agency coordination organ to oversee and supervise operations that do not fall under the purview of any of the agencies represented at the one stop border post. view
• 16 Aug 2016 in National Assembly: (xi) Unresolved Government Land Issues: In the course of receiving evidence from Accounting Officers, the Committee noted with grave concern that a lot of Government land and fixed assets all over the country had no ownership documents making them an easy target for unscrupulous land grabbers. The most affected institutions include public schools and prisons which had progressively lost huge parts of their land to greedy land merchants. view
• 16 Aug 2016 in National Assembly: The Committee directs the Director of Survey to immediately embark on a process of adjudicating all public land in Kenya, so that the Ministry of Lands, Housing and Urban Development can issue title deeds by 31st December 2016 to all public entities. The Committee further directs that all private organisations and/or individuals who may have acquired land illegally from these public institutions should immediately have their title deeds revoked with the ownership reverting to the public. (xii) Retention Accounts: The Committee observes that the actual balances in the retention accounts in various MDAs have become difficult to ascertain thus rendering ... view
• 16 Aug 2016 in National Assembly: The Committee, therefore, recommends the setting up of a task force by the National Treasury to conduct detailed forensic audit of all retention accounts in all MDAs and report the same to Parliament, specifically to PAC by 31st December 2016. The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor. view
• 16 Aug 2016 in National Assembly: Hon. Speaker, there is the issue of the round table discussion of the big nine. The Committee, together with the Public Investments Committee, held a round table discussion with the big nine on 3rd March, 2016. The big nine comprise of the Speaker of the National Assembly, Chairs of Public Accounts Committee and Public Investments Committee, Chair of the Budget and Appropriations Committee, the Cabinet Secretary, National Treasury, the Chief Justice, the Director of Public Prosecutions, the Auditor-General, the Controller of Budget, the Attorney- General and the Head of Public Service. view
• 16 Aug 2016 in National Assembly: The agenda of the meeting was to discuss policy matters surrounding the entire public finance cycle and tackle the challenges encountered by oversight committees in execution of their mandate. The meeting resolves that:- (i) All agencies implementing resolutions of Parliament including the DPP, the Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission and the Attorney-General’s Office will report to Parliament every six months on the status of the implementation. (ii) There will be regular meetings between the Controller of Budget and the Departmental Committees of the National Assembly on the Controller of Budget Annual Reports on the Budget implementation. (iii) Treasury will give an ... view
• 16 Aug 2016 in National Assembly: There is also the issue of the accounts of the Constituencies Development Fund (CDF). As a departure from the norm, the Auditor-General did not include accounts from the CDF in the comprehensive Blue Book. These reports have been tabled in the House piece meal. The Committee noted that it was within its mandate to examine these accounts as they are funded by the national Government. view
• 16 Aug 2016 in National Assembly: On 10th March 2016, the Committee held discussions with the Principal Secretary for Planning and the Acting Chief Executive Officer of the CDF Board and sought to examine these accounts as one comprehensive report. The Committee, therefore, embarked on examination of these reports after the adoption of this Report. The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor. view