27 Jun 2012 in National Assembly:
Madam Temporary Deputy Chairlady, I beg to move:- THAT, Clause 68(3) of the Bill be amended by striking out the following words “the Controller of Budget and” appearing in between the words “of” and “Parliament” to read as follows:-
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27 Jun 2012 in National Assembly:
If the concerns referred to in subsection (2) are not adequately addressed by the Cabinet Secretary or the Chief Justice or the Speaker of the National Assembly, the Accounting Officer shall bring those concerns to the attention of Parliament.”
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27 Jun 2012 in National Assembly:
THAT, Clause 68 be amended in subsection (4) (b) by inserting the words, “and the Controller of Budget” at the end thereof.
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27 Jun 2012 in National Assembly:
Again this is clarifying that if Accounting Officers disagree or if the issues are not addressed clearly they can now have recourse to Parliament. They can bring those issues to Parliament.
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27 Jun 2012 in National Assembly:
Madam Temporary Deputy Chairlady, I beg to move:- THAT, Clause 69 be amended- (a) in sub clause (1), by inserting the words “a prescribed” immediately after the word “exceeding” (b) in sub clause (2), by inserting the word “and” immediately after the words “further amount”. Again this is the clean up.
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27 Jun 2012 in National Assembly:
Madam Temporary Deputy Chairlady, I beg to move:- THAT, Clause 73(3) of the Bill be amended by deleting the following words at the beginning of the subsection “A national government entity” and insert the following words to replace them “The Internal Auditor General Department of the National Treasury” to read as follows:-
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27 Jun 2012 in National Assembly:
73 (3) “The Internal Auditor General Department of the National Treasury shall ensure that its arrangements for conducting internal audits include-”
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27 Jun 2012 in National Assembly:
Let me also thank the Committee. We have now come to an understanding that there are different roles for external auditors and internal auditors. Internal auditors are management tools and this has been left with Treasury. External audit now belongs to a different department.
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27 Jun 2012 in National Assembly:
Madam Temporary Deputy Chairlady, as you can see, this amendment was not agreed upon within the Treasury. Even the Committee Members did not agree with the amendment. Therefore, hon. Martin Ogindo applied to be allowed to present this amendment on his own, which he has done.
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27 Jun 2012 in National Assembly:
This is a question of being practical. There are many receivers of revenue. A Company Secretary cannot be the only receiver of revenue. He cannot be held responsible. For example, in the Lands Office, the Lands Registrar is the receiver of revenue authorised by the Company Secretary to receive revenue. The person who is really responsible for revenue collection from land transactions is the Registrar of Lands.
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