TAMING THE OFFICE OF THE AUDITOR GENERAL

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EDUARD OUKO THE ROGUE OFFICE OF THE AUDITOR GENERAL OF KENYA

We will come to this detail reported by the NATION thus.

Posted Saturday, July 18, 2015 | by- JUSTUS WANGA

Uproar over move to place EACC under PSC

Auditor-General Edward Ouko has called for changes to the Public Audit Bill, saying if passed in its current form it could impede his office’s mandate to audit government expenditure.

Impede? I thought that was exactly the purpose of the bill fronted by Aden Duale! Imagine the PAC & PIC, other parliamentary committees, the EACC and Judiciary would have half the lacklustre robustness of the auditor General as we have seen over the past two years, shining light on the pivotal points of graft! we would be far in the war against graft, wouldn't we! But with boisterous generals like Ababu Namwamba revealed for paper tigers --(bwogo ohodho gi thwon thuol to motho thi), aint we up to our necks and still drowning in the thick of graft and impunity!

But today, a light touch!

Whenever there is an audit report which details the wanton waste of public money by political CEO's, the Kenyan Kings of Impunity are quick to raise the cannon and blast away at the author, tossing away both water, baby and bathtub.

Listening to Kenyan kleptocrats, one would believe accounting is a discipline akin to sorcery, that there is neither scientific methodology, nor factual infrastructuring (mathematical logic), nor systematic accuracy.

As i said at the beginning of the thread castigating the parasitic vermin organised in Raila Odingas ODM which is looting Nyanza to the bones, dismissing accounting reports was first made bon-ton by the then government spokesman Alfred Mutua, now Machakos 'superstar' governor, when he was confronted with the findings of the John Githong'o-sourced Kroll report. Mutua, his baby face more innocent than an infant sleep-sucking mummy's ripe teat, declared the Kroll report a concoction of balderdash, full of rumour, innuendo and immaterial circumstantial idle hearsay! –--Mayoo Ululu yawa!

You instinctively knew Mutua was worth twice his pay to the elite or the captains of graft who own Kenya. It was a template, or easier said, a blueprint for subsequent responses to the same.

And so after many many more auditor general's reports detailing the rot within the Kibaki-Raila GCG gravy train going down without a comment, came the era of devolution with the office pimped-up a bit and determined to earn keep. But the latest episode, like the KPMG report on the counties, or even Mumias sugar, has not gone unnoticed.

Earlier on too, using the Alfred Mutua precedent, the then chairman of the Governors club Isaac Ruto of Bomet came out blazing. KPMG? Are these not the same guys who facilitated Goldenberg and Anglo-leasing? and now they know right from wrong!? Then a few days ago Eduard Ouko was at it again. His office released detailed reports which, though Kenyans know what is going on, still managed to shock the sensibilities of the nation and cast a shadow over the belovedinfant of a devolution process. The devolution corridor, from Queen Waiguru's NYS auspices to the far-flung rowdy Ruth Odinga-Ranguma counties of Kisumu, is a stinking sewer belt of the morally challenged administrators. Graft and graft and wastage upon wastage is their piety in fellowship.

ENTER PETER MUNYUA, replacing Isaac Rutto as the chairman of the Governors roundtable.

1. the incompetent Ouko?

His office, like the Kroll office, like the KPMG office, like the Transparency International audit office, and those Maina Kia people, is, let us quote the old Alfred Mutua: little else than 'peddling concoctions of balderdash, pregnant with half-baked rumours and devoid of facts or conclusive figures!''

here is the variation offered by Anne Waiguru's side kick, PS Mangiti.

Devolution Principal Secretary Peter Mangiti said they comprehensively responded to all queries raised by the Auditor General’s letter dated April 29 on May 4. “However, to our dismay, upon examination of the final audit report, we observed that the Auditor General had not taken our responses into account at all,” he stated. The PS pointed out that his ministry held several meetings with the audit team and that Mr Ouko expressed satisfaction with most of the queries raised, but which were not included in the final audit report.

www.standardmedia.co.ke/article/2000169505/anne-waiguru-s-ministry-faults-auditor-for-erroneous-report

here is the kind of stuff too complicated for the dimwits at Ouko's office

Anne Waiguru's Ministry faults auditor for erroneous report

By Standard Reporter Updated Friday, July 17th 2015

Devolution Cabinet Secretary Anne Waiguru (left) with Principal Secretary Peter Mangiti. [PHOTO: FILE/STANDARD] NAIROBI: The Ministry of Devolution has faulted Auditor General Edward Ouko for allegedly leaving out its responses on audit queries for the year ending June, 2014. Devolution Principal Secretary Peter Mangiti said they comprehensively responded to all queries raised by the Auditor General’s letter dated April 29 on May 4. “However, to our dismay, upon examination of the final audit report, we observed that the Auditor General had not taken our responses into account at all,” he stated. The PS pointed out that his ministry held several meetings with the audit team and that Mr Ouko expressed satisfaction with most of the queries raised, but which were not included in the final audit report.

The PS admitted that it was indeed true that the ministry had pending bills amounting to Sh4.2 billion that was presented for audit. “It was clearly stated to the Auditor General that the Sh1.1 billion pending bill included in the initial statement was what had been received in the accounts unit by the end of the financial year. Subsequently, all bills were consolidated, the schedule updated accordingly and presented for audit. There was no case of loss and failing to account,” explained Mangiti.
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On bank reconciliations and other accounting matters, the PS said discrepancies in record were attributed to the timings between commitment and actual payments whereby payments for the financial year go beyond the end of that financial year. “They were subsequently reconciled and presented for audit,” he added. The PS added that certain functions were transferred from the Ministry of Devolution to the Ministry of Lands, Housing and Urban Development, while the budget of those functions remained with the ministry.

Easier than std 8 mathematics exams I would say, so, why do questions remain which, even on redirect, author only more questions?

Once upon a time, this:


uloaded 1 mrt. 2014
Makueni governor Kivutha Kibwana tells Victoria Rubadiri that it is he who invited the auditor general to audit the county. He says claims any funds embezzled happened before he took office. He also responds to reports of two toilets built for Sh4 million

THE TROUBLE WITH PEOPLE LIKE OUKO!

Missing' millions and maths that don't just add up

By Roselyne Obala. Tuesday, July 21st 2015

Nairobi is also on the spot over revenue collection, where records maintained by the county government on selected parking lots revealed expected revenue stands at Sh32 million but only Sh8.5 million is collected. “The county accounts show that it generates Sh12 billion, receipts relating to the collection only includes rates, licences, fees, parking charges and other taxes levied. There are discrepancies between the revenue collection and revenue records,” noted the auditor. “The difference of Sh23.5 million for parking was not explained, therefore the actual revenue collected can not be ascertained,” said the Auditor General. It is also not clear how Sh11.6 billion was utilised in respect of compensation for employees. “No documentation was availed to support the validity of these payments,” said the auditor. He continued: “There is also an outstanding imprest of Sh51 million.”

KIRINYAGA

In Kirinyaga, Sh4.3 million revenue was collected and not banked, including an outstanding Sh863,000 from an employee yet to be surrendered. “The county spent Sh139 million on water project, the value for money could not be ascertained,” said the report.

KAKAMEGA

Audit reveals Kakamega breached procurement law and the Public Finance Management Act in the purchase of motor vehicles worth Sh155 million, while the system indicate Sh162 million. “In addition, the Integrated Finance Management System (IFMIS) expenditure on rural roads maintained stands at Sh72 million, which was not disclosed in the accounts. The acquisition of land was wrongly classified as other payments,” the report shows. The auditor adds: “The reported compensation of Sh2.831 million to employees does not agree with the figure in the notes to the account. There is an amount difference from the payroll total of Sh2.356 million.”

BUSIA

n Busia, the county officials did not provide supporting documents in the expenditure of Sh811 million during audit review. The amount in question, was meant for transfers to the other government entities, and reported as deducted at source to cater for devolved ministries/departments salaries and emoluments. “An amount of Sh1.7 million was recorded as reimbursements and refund was not receipted and accounted. As a result, it has not been possible to confirm the accuracy of the transfers between the two levels of government of the queried amount,” the auditor indicated in his report. The audit wants Sh1.3 billion be accounted for. Also, there is an outstanding imprest of Sh25 million issued to various officers among them Members of the County Executive. “An amount of Sh128 million was spent on domestic travels, subsistence and other transportation costs item between July 2013 and May 2014 against a budget of Sh87 million. The county executive over spent by Sh40 million and this has not been explained,” disclosed Ouko. “The county executive has an outstanding Sh16 million unaccounted for revenue, collected to be remitted in the county revenue fund account,” he said.

KISUMU

Jaramogi Oginga Odinga Teaching and Referral Hospital denied cash, funds splashed on MCAs instead

By Everlyne Judith Kwamboka

Updated Wednesday, July 22nd 2015

The Kisumu county government failed to remit Sh266 million to Jaramogi Oginga Odinga Teaching and Referral Hospital, an audit report shows.

he money in question was given to the MCAs by the assembly, whereby each of them received Sh150,000 monthly cash float to cater for rent, salaries and office maintenance for their ward offices.

www.standardmedia.co.ke/article/2000170005/kisumu-hospital-denied-cash-funds-splashed-on-mcas-instead

I guess we can give spindoc Alfred Mutua a break and, instead, quote Kidero's lawyer Ojienda on his dismissal of the KMG report on Mumias Sugar! Ojienda will just be a minor variation on Mutua though! I promise!

Even the Kiganjo graduates can not match the business acumen certified below:

Suspended Nairobi County Chief Finance Officer Jimmy Mutuku Kiamba deposited nearly Sh1.4 billion to his private and business accounts over a period of five years.

The Standard on Sunday can reveal the bulk of these deposits were made to his private accounts, now the subject of investigations by the Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission (EACC). Majority of these deposits were made between 2011 and 2014 when Mr Kiamba, 41, served as treasurer of Nairobi City Council and later as chief finance officer of Nairobi County. However, the volume and the frequency of the deposits increased substantially in 2013 until December 2014 when EACC went to court to freeze his accounts.

www.standardmedia.co.ke/thecounties/article/2000168132/how-nairobi-county-chief-made-sh1-4b-in-five-years

and now the best. Peter Munya, governor of Meru and freshly-annointed chair of the caucus of Governors, faults the incompetence and carelessness of Ouko's office. A variation on the phraseology of the golden Alfred Mutua.

By Maureen Murimi, Citizen Digital
Published on 23 July 2015

Speaking in Nairobi, Munya also claimed that the Auditor General’s report on financial impropriety by some counties is inconclusive and inaccurate.
The Meru Governor said that the county governments that received the Auditor General’s interim report, disclosed all relevant information to the queries that he had raised but the report, he claims, does not reflect the responses.
For the report to be comprehensive, Munya says it has to be amended and incorporate the views of the relevant County Assemblies Committees and the responses should form the Final Audit report.

Munya challenged the Auditor General to support counties to meet their fiscal objectives by assisting them identify and mitigate internal and external risks other than play the role of fault finding.
The COG chair also said that the report does not fully capture in an accurate manner the financial status of county governments.
citizentv.co.ke/news/governors-pressure-govt-to-devolve-functions-fault-auditor-generals-report/

Indeed fair and balanced is to incorporate the views of the thieves! it is a thought! the public ever crowds waheshimiwa demanding to be set free, as in 'gonya ane koro'! --such miscellaneous expenditure posts must somehow be reconciled, no?

But the pig-headed Ouko would not listen,

Audit reveals ‘misuse of public funds’ in counties

By Moses Njagi and Roselyne Obala Updated Friday, July 17th 2015

The auditor has poked holes in the expenditure of funds in Kirinyaga, Meru, Mombasa, Baringo, Homa Bay, Nyeri, Nairobi, Kajiado, Busia and Makueni counties.

MOMBASA

An anomaly was also noted in the manner the county administration undertakes its revenue banking, with the auditor saying Sh217 million was banked in a bank account other than the designated county revenue account.

MERU

Meru County has been faulted for irregular procurement of consultancy services meant for research, feasibility studies, project preparations and design, where an expenditure of Sh25 million was incurred out of the budgeted amount. Governor Peter Munya is also required to explain why Sh589 million was incurred o above the budgeted amount.

www.standardmedia.co.ke/worldcup/?articleID=2000169528&story_title=audit-reveals-misuse-of-public-funds-in-counties&pageNo=2

So the report of the auditor's office is inconclusive and inaccurate!? But so too, it would appear, are Munya's own financial reports and statements! --O Munya yawa!

Any trained accountants out there!? We Kenyans seem out of out depths when it comes to book-keeping! HeeeeeeelllllP!

FOOTNOTE:

Suspended CSs Ngilu, Kamau challenge legal status of EACC in graft cases

By Fred Makana Thursday, July 23rd 2015

The criminal case against suspended Cabinet Secretary Michael Kamau has been temporarily stopped by an anti- corruption court.

See also: Executive on the spot as auditor general reveals public funds misuse

Kamau's case was stopped yesterday as suspended Lands Cabinet Secretary Charity Ngilu also moved to the High Court to challenge her prosecution over the Sh8 billion land in Karen.

Read more at: www.standardmedia.co.ke/worldcup/article/2000170094/suspended-css-ngilu-kamau-challenge-legal-status-of-eacc-in-graft-cases

EACC is unconstitutional, as the captains of graft had foreseen when they sent home Onsongo and Keino and Mumi Matemu!

EARLIER ON, thorough broom needed,



Willy Mutunga and the scam-ridden racket he runs called the Kenyan Judiciary, had this funny move in store for us, should anyone think indictments are worth a dime any day!

justice Isaac Lenaola has recused himself from hearing a case in which suspended Transport CS Eng Michael Kamau is challenging his prosecution.
The High Court judge disqualified himself citing unnamed personal reasons.
Kamau is challenging his prosecution claiming that the Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission, which recommended the charges, was not well-constituted after its commissioners resigned.

This challenge has now been granted! Case ended.

Where, on the four-corners of the promising land of Kenya, does one find a few good men to do any job right!?
MEANWHILE: One of Aden Duale's egg hatches. Next.

[OtishOtish]

EACC is unconstitutional, as the captains of graft had foreseen when they sent home Onsongo and Keino and Mumi Matemu!

They get marks for "originality". Instead of the standard, tired "I didn't do it!", we have "The people who reported me and provided the evidence had no business doing so!". And the cheek seems to be working.

As for Ouko, there is the standard response, which Mr. Duale has put to other noisemakers: "Hii pesa sio ya mama yako bwana." Let people eat.

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HOW CAN OUKO FOOLPROOF HIS REPORTS AGAINST ETERNAL RIDICULE?

The auditor general Ouko should smell the coffee. If he were to consult an astrologer, I think the star-gazer would divine bad omens. His office is on the way out. The whole political elite is ganged up against it, and Aden Duale, the URP big shot who knows all the terrorists but wont reveal a single name, is already a primed detonator.

James Oswago and Cyprian Awiti have gone to press to rubbish the work of Ouko and his team. James Oswago was part of the chicken-eating IEBC under the broken wings of Isack Hassan, and while their fellow conspirators abroad have been indicted by British law, Oswago and co have not disparaged the British investigations, nor the court process there. But locally, they claim Ouko and his office are incompetent fools.
Cyprian Awiti is the governor of my native HomaBay county, and has been adversely named in the auditor General's report. One scandal is called Chickengate. Awiti too has come out to rubbish and ridicule the competences of Ouko and his team.

So, the whole devolution complex –-from the super cabinet secretary and presidential favourite Anne, via the chairman of the Governors club (Peter Munya of Meru), to every Tom Dick and Harry governor, are out in arms against the auditor general. --What chance does he have?

Then in the bureaucracy, the all powerful security state complex do not want their books audited, and have proven themselves ready to have it in law, that it is TREASON to reveal how they spend public money, and thy bent bendables like Aden Duale to insert such outrages in a bill! Add this to the Mpigs who are not happy with revelations about CDF misuse, and a picture emerges of a CONSENSUS to 'tame' this trouble-shooter Ouko and his damned irritant of an incompetent office.

So Ouko should ponder the fates of Mumo, Namwamba, Githong'o and the many others who make the list long.

So what is Ouko's best shot?

Methinks it is to produce a document which is beyond trashing by even the best of forensic accountant lawyers around, let alone every Tom Dick and Harry notable, governor or bureaucrat or Mpig, or cabinet secretary naturally. To do this, Ouko should dare Obama who waxed outraged against corruption in Kenya. That is, he should ask forconsultative TECHNICAL HELP OFFICIALLY VIA THE AMERICAN EMBASSY.

The government of the United States has a ace department called IRS. Internal Revenue Service. They are specialists. When these guys tear your books apart and present a bill, or a statement that you have swindled, it is as foolproof as factual can be, and trashing it is to hang yourself upside down. I am sure if Uncle Yankee loaned a battery of these crackers to the office of the auditor general in Nairobi, and they went to work on our finances at their top, the document they would produce would be a bomb. And no amount of Alfred Mutua grandstanding --thinking of the Kroll report, Tom Ojienda grandstanding --thinking of the KPMG report, AhmedNassir Abdullahi grandstanding …..... no amount of trashing and ridiculing by the garrulous thieves we call governors would belittle the document!

Ababu Tawfiq fooled around and is now licking his wounds –-or maybe enjoying the fat proceeds of his treachery of course, since some of his mates insist he was bribed! And this man Ouko too will soon be in a similar state, laughing all the way to the bank as they say, or wishing he had done more for his country when he could. But if he wants to leave a better legacy than Ababu, a legacy more in tune with that of John Githong'o, then he Ouko must produce stuff sh!theads and smart-alecs alike stand in awe of!

Quick Ouko, before the sword of Damocles over your head descends. It is in the stars, you are dead, and your office sacked!

FOOTNOTES www.businessdailyafrica.com/Auditor-General-faults-Hassan-Oswago-over-2013-BVR-election-kits/-/539546/2360712/-/k22j73z/-/index.html

Posted Tuesday, June 24 2014 at 20:02

In Summary

Mr Oswago is currently under suspension after being charged in court over the procurement of the BVRs and Electronic Voter Identification Devices (Evids) that largely failed during voting.
IEBC chairman was found culpable for allowing Mr Tim Colby to sit in a meeting discussing a government-to-government procurement option.
Mr Githae is accused of delaying to send specifications and timelines to government of France in response to their request directed by the Cabinet committee on implementation of the Constitution.

Auditor-General Edward Ouko has found Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission chairman Isaack Hassan, suspended CEO James Oswago and former Finance minister Njeru Githae culpable in the procurement of biometric voter registration kits in a government-to-government arrangement.
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In a special audit on the procurement of the Electronic Voter Devices for the 2013 General Election by the IEBC, Mr Ouko accused Mr Oswago for mismanaging the BVR tender, leading to costlier government-to-government procurement.

Mr Oswago is currently under suspension after being charged in court over the procurement of the BVRs and Electronic Voter Identification Devices (Evids) that largely failed during voting

James Oswago reveals intrigues in procurement of poll machines

By Moses Njagih Updated Tuesday, July 28th 2015

Former Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) Chief Executive James Oswago has disclosed the deep-rooted interests within the electoral body that thwarted the procurement of the Biometric Voter Registration (BVR) kit. Oswago detailed internal pressure and interference from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Kenya High Commission in India, who were rooting for the lucrative tender to be awarded to Face Technologies Company. He lifted the lid on the intrigues that followed the Sh3.9 billion tender, even disclosing that an official from the High Commission had allegedly demanded Sh30 million bribe from the 4G Solutions Company that had been identified to supply the kits, as a condition to be cleared as a reputable firm.

Read more at: www.standardmedia.co.ke/article/2000170654/oswago-reveals-intrigues-in-procurement-of-poll-machines/

Oswago, however, denied the allegations, dismissing the auditor’s report as fatally flawed, inaccurate and unfair to him

Ababu Namwamba would say: the Ouko report was PEDESTRIAN!

Omera Ouko, stop being pedestrian in such a high power job! --Yawa, Rotich at Finance, pedestrian (Obama calculated corruption costs Kenya 250,000 jobs per year!) Njoroge at CBK, pedestrian (i saw the IMF wagging a finger at him over the shilling!) Yawa! nothing better than pedestrian on offer at every level?

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Obama to help Uhuru fight graft, details of Kenya-America anti-corruption deal emerge

Kenya also committed to conduct thorough investigations into corruption cases and, where investigations adduce sufficient evidence, to professionally prosecute.
"By late 2015, the US Government also plans to provide technical assistance to the Independent Policing Oversight Authority, the National Police Service Commission, and the National Police Service’s Internal Affairs Unit to help them enhance police accountability," the document states.

The two governments also agreed the Kenyan Attorney General’s Office and the US Department of Justice, Office of International Affairs, meet to discuss best practices and to improve bilateral cooperation in criminal cases, with a focus on mutual legal assistance and extradition.
"The Government of Kenya pledges to review and expand its mutual legal assistance framework and partnership with key strategic countries. This work would especially target enabling asset ....

- See more at: www.the-star.co.ke/news/obama-help-uhuru-fight-graft-details-kenya-america-anti-corruption-deal-emerge#sthash.s2J8Mqdt.dpuf

Better late than never I suppose! I notice a clever man like Obama had to wait until the EACC was disbanded before offering his help! But then, may be Ouru asked for it, after confessing he is overwhelmed at home, overrun by the cartels of corruption!

[kamalet]

Just what reports get published in the press?

Having been a cub accountant in another life, I know that most auditors will give a report based on their investigation and ask management to provide a response before an audit opinion is given. This will normally allow the person being audited to respond to the findings and where no explanation is given that satisfies the auditor, then a qualified audit report is given.

We tend to give credence to the report by the Auditor on his investigation rather than the opinion he gives and this could create a bigger problem in understanding the extent of graft. It may also be the reason no action seems to be taken against the ministries following the reports.

[kamalet]

And now the National Treasuryweighs in to show possible incompetence on the part of the Auditor General in how he reports.

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Jul 31, 2015 8:30:48 GMT 3 kamalet said:

And now the National Treasuryweighs in to show possible incompetence on the part of the Auditor General in how he reports.

Kamalet,

This is why I always check out the neighbours. I hear they call it control in experimental science.
(what else is the result under different conditions!?)

I ask myself first:
–--How complicated is the science discipline of auditing/accounting today?
–-- Is it rocket science, or ABC stuff? --ordinary arithmetic which does not even need an elementary graps of differential calculus)
–--Are there folks out there, in countries out there ----now, in the past, or even the distant past (Marshall Plan)---- who have had more complicated expenditures to audit? (arising from economies more complex than Kenya's)
–--Multinational corporations like ExxonMobil, operative on every country on earth, and with cash-flows greater than continental Africa within any given period, how do their accounting scandals look like?

After answering the above questions, occasionally with the help of insider professionals and academic theorists, I have reached the conclusion Ouko must be a fwak up, otherwise nobody would dare call his reports INACCURATE (Oswago) and misguided (Mangiti), or half-baked omissions (Awiti); wet used toilet paper (Rotich).

If Ouko isn't a hoax, and his troupe aren't clowns, but are cocksure of their stuff, their grit and grasp of substance, then would the audit office take these detractors through their arithmetic, figure by figure, paragraph by paragraph, page by page, until the detractors withdraw these vile qualifications like 'incomplete and inaccurate'. Until they withdraw them publicly and officially, or have their asses sued for defamation.

But as we have observed, every Tom Dick and Harry thief urinates publicly on the auditor general's report sheets, and like a fool and over-domesticated dog, Ouko laps up their urine and chews his yellow soaked pages of audit, his grin wider than VP Ruto's at Obama's handshake!

Now finsec Rotich himself is publicly disparaging Ouko, his team, his work and his office.

I found this very humorous and is motivated to wax lyrical over this character Rotich. In a short while.

First, a peek.

Who is Rotich at accounts? Do we not know where he was working, and at which station at the same department, when the famous ERRORS under minister of finance Uhuru Kenyatta and PS Joseph Kinyua were registered? Me? I would give Rotich a taste of his own medicine, like I would remind him of at least 15 major financial scandals at the treasury when he was head of some department, including the recent one which strings had to be pulled to save the former governor of CBK, prof. Njuguna Ndung'u, from custody and jail. --(Kenyans say DPP Tobiko is another hoax! and so is CJ Willy Mutunga, and .... etc etc!)

Naah, audit-challenged bureaucrats like these who were bosses when such accounting scandals rent the air, and continue in office when so much audit redirects and pardons have to be instituted, wouldn't disparage my accounting report in public without facing me before the professional board, court of law, court of public opinion, and fist-throws in the corridor! (but if one is incompetent, how would he fight back when accused of what he is for sooth!)

NB: Trained at Oxford and a renowned economist, the fresh Greek minister of finance was trying to make a point to some junior officials from the GERMAN treasury who had come to his town to take matters in their own hands --they want to sell Greek assets and channel the money directly to German banks! They beat him to a pulp: 'Fwacking meathead Greek. Shut the fwack up and take your orders. If your head had anything but shit, you would have overseen a functional taxation and accounting system in your goat-cheese and rotten-fish republic, and you wouldn't be beggin here!'

'Curiously subdued!'' was how good journalism reported it!

But I feel to put it bad, spade bad!

[jakaswanga]

THE PROFESSIONAL CRISIS

So to speak, the Andrea Chilulu's (best of the best educated) from both sides of the public office divide, the executive and the watchdog, in this case represented by Henry Rotich and Eduard Ouko, can not tell the nation the truth about public money, and its use. They are telling us FINANCIAL AUDITS are a matter of opinion. That Financial reports are mystic affairs, and no conclusive papers can be presented. Audits are an endeavour which can neither reveal theft, nor reveal unclear usage!

It is all down to your opinion. says the experts!

Sawa.

Some of us are blessed with common sense. We can resist Ivy league nonsense. We know theft. Will call it theft, get shocked at it. And, this is important in men as opposed to women, instead of collapsing dead in shock like old honest mothers, we would rather export the rage, so that it becomes the guilty thieves who perish, in guillotine chops!

This looks a better deal!

Obviously corruption in Kenya is a pathology. The minds of these caretakers have caught a disease, and are dysfunctional. Likely only a radical surgery will infest the nation once more with an epidemic of common sense.

#piece originally written for the culture and Cabral thread.

jukwaa.proboards.com/thread/9302/nyanza-cultural-rapids-goebbels-cabral

Continued.

Read more: jukwaa.proboards.com/thread/8472/why-richard-rotich-missing-action#ixzz3hYtHLFyh

THE CONTOURS OF AN ANNOUNCED PALACE COUP!

We used to call it a honey-pot-trap. The kdf and future governments are right in it now. Keeping the Kenyan army as boots-on-the ground for Uncle Sam has been made, even more, a very lucrative engagement. But unlike Wanjiku, Uncle Sam will extract value for every dime, preferably in blood. It is a death trap.

Then there is the New bill in town we will cover presently.



In effect the military will control the civilians. I think in essence we call that a military government, but what remains are the PR forms of sugarcoating it for sale as a democracy, or may be less, but an appropriate version thereof. This therefore means one of the hottest beds of power struggle in Kenya will have to be the control of security dockets. And true, they, miles ahead, already have a proposed bill to cover this palace coup.

---The bill gives the military total autonomy from CIVILIAN and parliamentary control. That means the military effectively becomes a government unto themselves, a state within a state.
How will any outsider, independently judge how much money to allot them in the budget, if the treasury nor the auditors can neither monitor nor audit the use, nor elected representatives openly question the expenditure and or priorities!? Does that not mean when they come for more, the finsec will have to give as asked!?

NB: Has anybody heard Henry Rotich give a considered opinion on this one! (remember what his father said about him: in secondary school he was the king of transparency to the last ndururu! But, lets say he moved on! to Harvard school, and such German-like spartan financial discipline is now too primitive for his taste!))

Then, still on the Duale bill, there's is this icing on the cream: the military will be, by law, appointing their own cabinet secretary, PS and others, independent of the parties pretending to run the state! And it will be treason to talk about whether she or he is vetted or not!

I know the meaning of the word coup! A bloodless palace coup! This bill is it!

Here are some hints.

Saturday, August 1, 2015, coup day!

New Bill seeks to hide how KDF spends budget billions

A Bill that has been tabled in the National Assembly proposes to shield the military from any form of civilian oversight, including financial accountability, except in deployment to operations.


FILE PHOTO | NATION MEDIA GROUP

In Summary

The government says the change in the law is to ensure smooth implementation.

The retirement age was crafted by the then Chief of General Staff General Daudi Tonje before he left the military. Service Commanders in the Army, Navy and Air Force could retire at a younger age, as long as they had served for four years.

Parliament would lose the role of assigning the Cabinet Secretary for Defence any functions.

By BERNARD NAMUNANE

A Bill proposes to give President Uhuru Kenyatta sweeping powers to extend the terms of top Kenya Defence Forces (KDF) chiefs by one year.

The Bill has been tabled in the National Assembly and proposes to shield the military from any form of civilian oversight, including financial accountability, except in deployment to operations.

It also proposes to remove the requirement that the defence forces should advertise all positions allocated to each county during recruitment and instead make it mandatory for “designated recruitment centres for all counties”.

The three are among a raft of changes which are proposed in the Kenya Defence Forces Bill which also seeks to do away with the requirement for the State to compensates families of soldiers, who will either be injured or die in training.

The government says the change in the law is to ensure smooth implementation.

Under the law, also known as the Tonje rules, the Chief of the Defence Forces, the vice chief and service commanders are required to serve for a single period of four years or retire upon attaining the age of 62 years — whichever comes first.
The retirement age was crafted by the then Chief of General Staff General Daudi Tonje before he left the military.
The chief of the defence forces retires at the age of 62, while lieutenant-generals and major-generals retire at 58 and 56 years, respectively unless they are promoted.
Service Commanders in the Army, Navy and Air Force could retire at a younger age, as long as they had served for four years.

The chief of defence forces and service commanders retire after four years, or after reaching the retirement age — whichever comes first.
But the Bill proposes to amend the law saying: “The President may, on the recommendation of the Defence Council, extend the term of office of the Chief of the Defence Forces, the Vice Chief of the Defence Forces or the Service Commanders for a period not exceeding one year.”

Such a mammoth change to things which have worked good so far, needs a higher motivation than efficiency. I smell a rat.

The Bill also seeks to shield the military from civilian oversight, which is now carried out by Parliament.

Parliament would lose the role of assigning the Cabinet Secretary for Defence any functions.

It also seeks to do away with the requirement for the Defence CS to report to the President and Parliament, as well as the military’s compliance with policies and directions that have been passed by the House.

The Bills proposes to remove the requirement for the Defence Cabinet Secretary to table in Parliament a yearly report on how the forces use their budget.
This means the military will spend its money out of public scrutiny, just like the National Intelligence Service.
Currently, the military is required to submit an annual report, in writing, to the President and Parliament, on the expenditure, work and accomplishment of the ministry.

Those last two sentences: spend money out of public scrutiny --Hi Hi Dr. Henry Rotich, you there mate!?, and no need to submit annual report in writing to parliament on expenditure etc etc! And a man from Harvard tells you that will INCREASE EFFICIENCY AND SERVICE DELIVERY! And support it in LAW!?

The game is on!

Coz the other Harvard man increases their budget two-hundred fold!

Obama, or at least American interests, have confidence in this bill!

HERE IS THE CONFIDENCE expressed in no uncertain terms.



mobile.nation.co.ke/news/US-gives-Kenyan-military-Sh9bn-to-fight-Al-Shabaab/-/1950946/2813598/-/format/xhtml/-/8p529pz/-/index.html

OBAMA LAVISHES CASH ON KDF TO FIGHT AL-SHABAAB

Key Points:

Kenya Defence Forces receives KSH.9.5 million this financial year as a boost to its fight against Al Shabaab from the United States
The money set to be used to acquire equipment, train the soldiers and support the KDF’s effort in Somalia.
The funding is a 163% compared to the KSH 3.8 billion given last year

Summary:

The United States’ government has given Kenya Defence Forces KSH9.5 billion aid as a boost to its efforts against Somalia-based al Qaeda affiliated group Harakat Al Shabaab Al Mujahideen.

The aid is a 163% increment from the KSH3.8 billion given in the last financial year. The amount of aid given by the US to Kenya has increased over the past few years with this year’s marking being the highest as a result of increased terror attacks on Kenya and the mission in Somalia.
The money will be used to buy equipment, train the military personnel and support the KDF in Somalia fighting against Al Shabaab. It will specifically be used in heightening “maneuver and border force, intelligence, logistics and counter IED attacks that have become the attack-mode of choice for the Al Shabaab especially in the recent weeks.

According to the military, KSH.1.9 Billion will be used to buy drones, and unmanned aerial vehicles that will conduct reconnaissance both on land and sea. According to OSINT report, the surveillance equipment to be acquired by Kenya is state of the art: undetectable, video-camera installed operable from a remote location.

The money will be used to ... OH, there will be audit, no publications of tenders, nothing for scrutiny! And Rotich who declared the auditor general incompetent, tells me that is the way to go! toward Uhuru Kenyatta's goal of industrialisation!

Onyango Oloo Yo, I ask for permission to use the word Madhafaka on this man! I narrated how his mother, proud Paula, thinks her son is the best thing since goat cheese in Kerio valley. I think I have succesfully argued he is faking her!

Tell me this murky bill is opposed by Rotich, before I withdraw! Man! folks like Adungosi died for the transparency enshrined in new constitution which heralds the second liberation!

NB: a great story is told of seing the light in Mobutu's Zaire. I will tell it later!

[kamalet]

Jakaswanga

I am ever too cautious to accept everything the media writes and the KDF Amendment Bill is one of those! I am still looking for the Bill to see how the media have reported as I think there is too much sensationalism than fact in the reporting. If you get sight of it, kindly share!

[podp]

Aug 3, 2015 14:16:50 GMT 3 kamalet said:

Jakaswanga

I am ever too cautious to accept everything the media writes and the KDF Amendment Bill is one of those! I am still looking for the Bill to see how the media have reported as I think there is too much sensationalism than fact in the reporting. If you get sight of it, kindly share!

it appears from archives that the name KDF was there as far back as 1939

books.google.co.ke/books?id=_lBm_HV-wDkC&pg=PA61&lpg=PA61&dq=Kenya+Defence+Forces+Amendment+Bill&source=bl&ots=oR2nqeAfTk&sig=lz_MbaMHstLiK2wnaFkXRAlJa08&hl=en&sa=X&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=Kenya%20Defence%20Forces%20Amendment%20Bill&f=false

otherwise for the 11 points against it see our own who migrated to the deep

deepcogitation.com/2015/08/01/be-very-afraid-of-the-kdf-amendment-bill-2015/

and from our Parliament the bill tracker is not that much useful on your request, see

www.parliament.go.ke/the-national-assembly/house-business/bills-tracker

[jakaswanga]

Aug 3, 2015 14:16:50 GMT 3 kamalet said:

Jakaswanga

I am ever too cautious to accept everything the media writes and the KDF Amendment Bill is one of those! I am still looking for the Bill to see how the media have reported as I think there is too much sensationalism than fact in the reporting. If you get sight of it, kindly share!

Kamalet,

I put the 8-4-4=0 reports in context. --Remember the fiasco and parliamentary melee following the SECURITY BILL? the one which saw the great Gikuyu Xenophobe Moses Kuria wag his vicious tongue inside the knickers of my sister Mabona of Mbita? while senator Johnston Muthama of Machakos nearly lost his balls to an overly enthusiastic Jubilee groper?

Then the speed with which the president moved to sign it into law. Already in that bill 2014, was a clause declaring security expenditures top secret and treasonable to divulge/account. Then one recognises the dynamic. Not to mention Aden Duale had, long before, proposed that the Army chief of staff be answerable only to the President, making it in effect not a public office, but a private militia head.

Then there is the historical precedent which makes it all a farce. Soon after independence in 1963, multiparty was abandoned, power increasingly concentrated in the person of the presidency. It was an incremental process, gradual, and if one plots the current parliamentary bills and legislation traject of Jubilee, in its urgency to minimise the democratic space, it is a fit, or should i say, a transcription.

Uhuruto were always against the constitution anyway. The enactment was a day of horror which they now hasten to reverse!

Cheers!

[jakaswanga]

APPEAL TO DR. PATRICK NGUMI AND STAR ACCOUNTANT ROTTOK CHESAINA!

Ouko and Rotich have lost it. Accounting has become too complicated for their doctoral heads. Now they have to sit cross-legged on the floor as William Ruto, whose memory about what he owns or not can be very fuzzy, takes them through their arithmetic!

I cannot stand it! I think they are sh!theads with no loyalty to neither Wanjiku nor the profession!

NB: Dr. Patrick Ngumi is the CEO/director of the Institute of Certified Accountants of Kenya, ICPAK. Here is he is smiling to seal an international deal with the Association of Chartered Certified accountants, international,ACCA.


ICPAK CEO, Dr Patrick Ngumi with ACCA global CEO Hellen Brand after signing the deal in August 4, 2015

Mr Rottok Chesainais an award winning chartered accountant of Kenyan origins based in South Africa, He is apparently so hot, so highly rated ...

The nominees and eventual winner are selected on the basis of their leadership skills, career highlights and integrity.
It takes a minimum of seven years for one to qualify as a chartered accountant in South Africa.
Mr Chesaina moved to South Africa at 21 and obtained his bachelor of commerce degree in accounting with distinction. At 28, he was appointed a profit-sharing partner of RSM, a Johannesburg audit firm affiliated to a network of 37,000 staff in 112 countries.

... I think he is the real deal to consult for conclusive opinion on the spat between the office of Ouko as Auditor General, and the office of Rotich as Finance Ministry. These two doctors are playing games, I need a no-nonsense brain for a binding opinion. That will be Dr. Patrick Ngumi and Rottock Chesaina.

How much has wanjiku lost, how and where!

Wednesday, August 5, 2015

Deals put Kenyan accountants on global market

Kenyan accountants will enjoy global recognition and acceptance by the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA).
The ACCA and the Institute of Certified Public Accountants of Kenya (ICPAK) on Tuesday signed a memorandum of understanding to recognise each other’s certificates.

For Ouko and Rotich I will now refer to them as Dr. Sheet and Dr. Poop, as they have let matters, their professional mores, degenerate to such an extent that The Singh himself has to admonish them to behave! (mano koro adiera ing'eyo in Doctor Abrain is in the toileta!)
Here

Ruto asks Auditor General to reconcile his books, condemns rampant corruption
Deputy President William Ruto has asked the auditor general to reconcile his figures with those of the parties disputing the accuracy of his reports.
Ruto said it is only then that the submitted report can represent a true picture of the situation on the ground.
www.the-star.co.ke/news/ruto-asks-auditor-general-reconcile-his-books-condemns-rampant-corruption#sthash.El5jyzg5.dpuf

No, I will have Ngumi and Chesaina for supper! and hope no constipation! hehe! ghenya!

[podp]

Prof Muigai, the government’s chief legal advisor, said the Bill is an initiative of KDF, a parliamentary committee and the Ministry of Defence. He said the Bill is owned by the parent ministry and he has “nothing useful to say” about it and advised that inquiries on its content should be directed to those who initiated it and who now own it. The Leader of Majority in the National Assembly Aden Duale has in the past defended the Bill saying it had been taken through stakeholders forums including constitutional bodies and the office of the AG. “The content of the Bill is owned by KDF and the parent ministry. They are the ones who know what they sought to achieve through the proposed changes,” Muigai told The Standard on Sunday.

.....

Mr Nyachae, however, admitted that his commission gave views on the proposed amendments when they were presented through the Miscellaneous Amendment Bill. He said he cannot know whether the input of the commission was factored in the published bill. “For the moment, we remain in the dark as to whether our input was considered because we haven’t seen the published Bill. Once you have the published Bill, we can discuss and I will tell what our proposals were in the matters raised,” Nyachae said. Law Society of Kenya chairman Eric Mutua, however, says the AG “cannot run away from this.” He said technically, the AG owns all the Bills generated from parent ministries because they are developed with assistance of legal counsels drawn from his office.

Read more at: standardmedia.co.ke/article/2000172134/attorney-general-cic-chairperson-nyachae-disown-controversial-kdf-bill

who is fooling who?

[jakaswanga]

Is there a problem or not? with the debts and the cash-flows and matters related finance? No consensus amongst economists as usual! Leaves only one remedy, thinking it out for yourself!

Tuesday, October 6, 2015

Treasury PS faults Auditor-General's public debt claims

By JOHN NJAGI

Thugge.

Treasury PS Kamau Thugge Tuesday contested an assertion by the Auditor-General that the country’s debt level was unsustainable, and dismissed it as lacking any concrete evidence.

The PS went on to read to members of the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) of the National Assembly an opinion of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), which stated despite the country borrowing heavily to fund infrastructure development, it was still able to manage its debts.

On his part, the Auditor-General, had raised a red flag on the country’s growing appetite for borrowing, noting that Sh483 billion had been borrowed in one year only, and that the country was likely to experience financial stress when some of the loans mature.

“We note that the government has borrowed to the tune of Sh483 billion in one year only which puts the country’s debt levels at unsustainable levels and is likely to lead to financial stress when repayment starts in 2019,” said a representative of the Auditor-General’s office.

PUBLIC DEBT DEBATE

But the position of the auditor, which is an independent office, was contested by the Treasury PS, which apart from the IMF position, stated figures indicating the country was yet to exhaust the amount of debts it could accumulate.

MPs, most from the Opposition, were also critical of the government’s borrowing citing the Euro bond, among other heavy borrowing by the government to fund infrastructure development such as the construction of the Standard Gauge Railway.

Suba MP John Mbadi and his Balambala counterpart Mr Abdikadir Aden defended the Auditor-General saying it was an independent office and part of its mandate was to raise the red flag, when it was found that the public debt was unsustainable.

“From his position where he has access to all government books, the Auditor- General is at a vantage position to know about the sustainability of the country’s debt and report about it,” said Mr Mbadi.

RISING DEMANDS

Mr Aden said it was public knowledge that the country had soaked up a lot of debt, saying with rising demands on the exchequer, such as push for higher salaries by teachers, and the start of debt repayment in future, it means that the country would be in financial distress.

Dr Thugge said the country’s debt stands at Sh2.2 trillion, and that multi-lateral institutions classification of the country’s policy and institutional assessment in debt management capacity, ranked it at 3.9, which is among the best in sub-Saharan Africa.

The PS said the country’s debt relative to exports stood at 47 percent, way below the 74 percent threshold, for a country to be classified to be in debt distress, or suffer unsustainable debt levels.

PUBLIC DEBT THRESHOLD

“With the current debt levels, even if the economy failed to grow at the projected rate of five to six percent, and in fact grew at 3 percent, and even if the exchange rate to the dollar was to reach Sh120, the country’s debt would still be sustainable,” he said referring to stress testing of the country’s debt position.

The country’s debt to revenue ratio stood at 216, below the internationally acceptable threshold of 300.

The Treasury PS, who appeared before PAC to answer to audit queries on the Treasury raised by the Auditor-General Mr Edward Ouko in the last financial year, faulted Mr Ouko’s office and the MPs for declaring the country’s debt unsustainable.

SUSTAINABLE DEBT

He said for the country’s debt to be declared unsustainable, it had to be assessed for a period not less than 20 years, and not within one year after the Auditor-general had cited the country’s debt to have increased by 30 per cent.

Dr Thugge said it was the first time the country was constructing a Standard Gauge Railway, saying after the project was complete, the level of disbursements would decrease, and the country was unlikely to engage in heavy borrowing in future.

However, MPs said the country was projected to pay debt at over Sh600 billion a year from 2019, and that the country was likely to experience financial instability.

What is worrying the shilling? yet the projected growth rate is 7%!? and Kenya is number three in Africa and set, in 15 years, to rank with Spain today?

May a hard look at the facts outs the above for fiction, --pep talk, and thus the shilling stutters, is nervous.

[jakaswanga]

www.nation.co.ke/news/politics/Cord-reads-malice-in-new-law-on-auditor-Ouko/-/1064/3003188/-/yk2boc/-/index.html

The Sunday Nation has gathered that some of the immediate triggers are the financial scam at the National Youth Service and the Eurobond saga.

The Opposition’s uproar stems from President Uhuru Kenyatta’s move on Friday to assent to the Public Audit Bill that considerably clips the powers of the auditor-general.

The Jubilee administration has been on the defensive, first denying cases of graft at NYS, only to later admit that some money had indeed been lost
.
But there is also a school of thought in government, whether real or imagined, that officials like Mr Ouko have been feeding Opposition chief Raila Odinga with information concerning financial scandals in government.

How else would a man who is not in government be often so accurate in some of the allegations he makes? they wonder.
The Opposition argues the creation of the office of a deputy in the Bill creates a fertile ground for the whimsical removal of the auditor-general.

and then, before the ink has dried on the seal of doom for the auditor general's office, highly-trained men who would know stuff, go missing in memory cells.

www.businessdailyafrica.com/Rotich--says-Treasury-has-no-list-of-Eurobond-projects/-/539546/3004196/-/gywrap/-/index.html

www.businessdailyafrica.com/Taxpayers-lost-interest-on-secret-Eurobond-account/-/539546/2938898/-/x9fpe4/-/index.html

Parliament’s Budget Office also called for an audit on how the Eurobond cash was used, arguing it had very little or no impact on its original intention of stabilising the exchange rate and bring down the high interest rates.
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The Treasury says the Eurobond was used to pay syndicated loan of $600 million (Sh61 billion) and Sh196.9 billion on projects. It has been challenged to give specific details of the infrastructure projects.

Now Rotich has lost his memory! he should have obeyed Ruto's example stuck to teatotaling. Now he has korsakov!

dec 21 2015: Rotich now says Treasury has no list of Eurobond projects

The National Treasury cannot show any infrastructure that consumed the Eurobond funds, Cabinet Secretary Henry Rotich said last Thursday, walking away from an earlier promise to lay bare details of the mega spending at the centre of political row with opposition leader Raila Odinga.

And when ivy-leagie treasury men develop amnesia at accounts, what do down-to-earth types who call a spade a spade do?

[jakaswanga]

Naked man eduard Ouko, half auditor general.

His office defanged, his act is now farce, just like the supreme court. But why still the full pay cheques!? yeah, that is an important part of the national comedy! Just like the fat one of the Mpigs.

Jan. 31, 2016. Auditor General asks for extension of reports' submission time

www.nation.co.ke/news/Auditor-General-asks-for-extension-of-reports-submission-time/-/1056/3055630/-/i58eh8z/-/index.html

Accounts is a very interactive process involving thousands of AIE (Authority to Incur Expenditure) holders and hundreds of accounting officers within government. The timeliness for presentation presuppose co-operation of all these officers. Unfortunately, this doesn’t always happen,” Mr Gumbo said.

The six-month constitutional timeline is meant to deal with executive mischief that saw former Auditor and Controller Generals sit on audit reports for years.

Relaxing the timelines for Dr Ouko may not be easy, given the manner the executive has been dealing with his office, especially after he exposed that the Jubilee administration spent Sh67 billion in unsupported expenditures in the 2013/14 financial year.

CONFLICTING REACTIONS

The bulk of the unaccounted for funds, Sh22 billion, was at the Ministry of Health headed by Mr James Macharia, who has since been moved to the Transport and Infrastructure docket.

The executive also sponsored a Public Audit Act that stripped Dr Ouko’s office off its independence in recruiting staff.

The function now resides with the Public Service Commission (PSC). In addition, the Act gives the National Treasury powers to decide the budget allocation for the Office of the Auditor General.

Following publication of the audit, Dr Ouko said some of his officers had received death threats.

There were also complaints by cabinet secretaries that the report does not give the true picture.

They also accused Dr Ouko of carrying out an audit that fell short of international standards.

Despite the challenges, the consolidated annual report of the Auditor General is one of the most eagerly awaited reports, with the growing anticipation that it will settle the debate on the use of the Sh250 billion Eurobond proceeds

[jakaswanga]

HA, THE KERIO GOAT ROTICH IS QUITE A PIECE!

The shoving aside of a top accountant and other stories from Nairobi.

There has been a transfer of auditors. A re-arrangement. The great news is no Kenyan of elementary sense is fooled. It is a choreographed game of musical chairs to get rid of Bernard Mucheere. This is the guy who blew the whistle on the going-ons at Mafya house. The president's bloodline was caught pants down in the process, a very embarassing affair. Now come the consequences, bad ones for the good guys!

It is a world upside down!

The well-oiled and notorious Kartel of Corruption which runs Kenya with president Ouru as its figurehead toy, sought a pretext to neutralise the nosy Ben Mucheere. With the billions involved, this step always had the obviousity of an inevitability. What is interesting is who their messenger boy had to be! (The Judiciary? The executive/politics? The Bureaucracy? etc etc?)

Thinking a bit, it is an old adage that changing captains mid-stream, mid crisis, requires a very powerful reason or motive. Mucheere, one of Kenya's leading forensic sleuths on book keeping, is/was in the middle of a very delicate operation: to unearth the truth of what went awry at MAFYA HOUSE, where Wanjiku lost anything between 3.5 to 5 billion shillings. I will typify the situation thus: this was a case of a competent captain in the thick of it, mid-stream in the eye of the storm! –--well matched!

So why change?

Parliament and senate financial and health committees wanted a quick report, but Mucheere pleaded more resources and personnel to enable him to fleet up, and authoritatively too. Rotich refused. (I have since been informed all auditors are employees of the ministry of finance and are only OUTSOURCED to other ministries, wherefore I deduce any lack of resources to complete an urgent task is a treasury decision! a Rotich cheap shot!)


Auditor Bernard Mucheere appears before the Senate Health Committee on November 15, 2016. He has been recalled from the Health ministry to the Treasury


So why these transfers now? the question must be asked.

–-Let us get the rationale from the official version, from the 'horse's' own mouth as it were.

Rotich moves Sh5bn Afya House scandal auditor Bernard Muchere

December 9 2016

Bernard Muchere was among 17 auditors moved in changes that Treasury Cabinet Secretary Henry Rotich said were prompted by the promotion of senior internal auditors in the Education ministry

Promotions at the ministry of education is what is leading Rotich to redeploy the most competent Captain, Mucheere, away from the eye of a powerful storm!?

Mr Muchere is the only one on the list who will be based at the internal audit headquarters at the Treasury in Nairobi.

The others were sent to the ministries of Transport, Education, Industry, Trade, Interior, Agriculture, Tourism, Sports, and Foreign Affairs, as well as the East African Community and other State departments.

He will be replaced by Francis Njau, who was the head of the internal audit unit for Transport, Infrastructure, Housing and Urban development.

Without any specifications of duties at headquarters, it is effectively a DEMOTION! he has been reigned in, like the once devil-exorcising Zambian cardinal Emmanuel Mlingo was recalled from the field to be interned at the vatican in Rome. It was a prelude to his official disgrace, defrocking and excommunication!

Sun Myung Moon and Emmanuel Milingo: A Marriage Made in Heaven?
Saturday March 10, 2007

When Archbishop Emmanuel Milingo rejoined the wife chosen for him by the Rev. Sun Myung Moon, the Catholic Church excommunicated him. But Milingo says it’s all part of a divine plan.

But ...
Ah! the Harvard-trained Kerio goat is insulting the collective intelligence of Kenyans! Give me Othaya Mwai Kibaki any day yawa! –-he is reported to have told (his then finance minister) David Mwiraria to tell Njugunah Ndung'u (at the central Bank) in his mother tongue, that he was a slimy thing from one of the rear inlets of a red goat recently receptive! (this was after the CBK disobeyed Kibaki on orders of the IMF! Kibaki then went East! In retrospect we can now confirm professor Ndung'u was indeed smegma, owned by rotten bankers like JanMohammed. Kibaki was right, even if David Mwiraria didn't dare deliver the message to Njugunah. When no-nonsense John Michuki temporarily went to finance he of course put down the professor!)

Now we have this Rotich fellow too, insisting on being called smegma. Holy sh!t! –-But I know somebody who would say, I told you so.

Onyango Oloo Jajukwaa had a flash of revelatory consciousness at the start of the Jubilee administration when the so-called technocrats were being paraded like hot nymphs at a bang. I will find the time to find the link later, but I believe the notorious essayist saw Henry Rotich 'gawking and quacking, stumbling and stammering in the national limelight.' He was suffering the fear of heights after being parachuted from 5 ranks down the food chain, in a meteoric dash to the top of the treasury mandarinate. The Notorious Oloo chuckled the new Breton Woods cabinet secretary was obviously somebody's meal ticket, a puppet on a string, and dance he would to the commands. But of who!? Which faction of the comprador lootocracy!?


And behold! All has come to pass, and he continues to deliver again and again. For instance.

Treasury Secretary Henry Rotich Sunday responded to some of the questions on the Eurobond funds, but could not provide proof on what happened to the cash stashed in the Federal Reserve Bank in the United States.

www.standardmedia.co.ke/business/article/2000189280/eurobond-rotich-dodges-one-billion-dollar-question

reference numbers

By Paul Wafula Updated Sat, January 16th 2016

Treasury Cabinet Secretary Henry Rotich A mix-up of reference numbers on letters directing the Central Bank of Kenya to transfer Eurobond billions to the Consolidated Fund is no more than an administrative issue, Treasury Cabinet Secretary Henry Rotich has said

www.standardmedia.co.ke/article/2000188311/rotich-now-defends-mix-up-of-eurobond-reference-numbers

Rotich now says Treasury has no list of Eurobond projects

By DAVID HERBLING, [e-mail]

Posted Monday, December 21 2015 at 09:18
In Summary
The National Treasury Cabinet Secretary Henry Rotich says it is the responsibility of each State department to account for use allocated funds.
Mr Rotich said line ministries were the custodians of their spending and are accountable to Parliament – effectively exonerating his department from responsibility over use of the Eurobond proceeds.

And then as hatchet man against the Yale management

Henry Rotich's policy review clips Patrick Njoroge's powers at CBK

By Moses Michira Updated Thu, June 16th 2016

www.standardmedia.co.ke/business/article/2000205397/rotich-s-policy-review-clips-njoroge-s-powers-at-cbk

Treasury Cabinet Secretary Henry Rotich has clipped the powers of the Central Bank of Kenya boss to regulate the banking sector. Mr Rotich is also in a new push to raise the minimum capitalisation for banks by five-fold to Sh5 billion. This latest policy measure was successfully fought off last year by immediate former CBK Governor Patrick Njoroge

Competent men in Kenya, not just the forensic auditor Bernard Mucheere, must be cut down to size if corruption is to continue teeming. The gawking and quacking Kerio goat surely lays dungs of gold to the looting cartel controlling him.

Candidate Ngatia: yeye pia, gita waya.

[jakaswanga]

BREAK IT DOWN

Taxpayers could lose billions as Ifmis and county manual records do not tally – report

Tuesday November 14 2017


Edward Ouko. Auditor-General Edward Ouko

Audit reports indicate that taxpayers risk losing billions of shillings in the counties due to discrepancies recorded between the Ifmis and statements of their financial transactions. PHOTO | FRANCIS NDERITU | NATION MEDIA GROUP
In Summary

Inconsistencies in majority of the 47 county governments' records made it difficult to confirm the accuracy and completeness of the expenditures.
Some counties did not present some documents for audit verification contrary to the law, auditor says.


By DAVID MWERE


Taxpayers risk losing billions of shillings in the counties due to the huge variations recorded between the Integrated Financial Management and Information System (Ifmis) and statements of their financial transactions.

In the 2016 county audit reports, Auditor-General Edward Ouko noted that the inconsistencies in majority of the 47 county governments' records made it difficult to confirm the accuracy and completeness of the expenditures.

VERIFICATION

“Documents were not presented for audit verification contrary to the law,” Mr Ouko said in the reports tabled in the Senate.

The Public Procurement and Disposal Act requires the county accounting officer to maintain a filing system with clear links between procurement and expenditure files to facilitate an audit trail.

Government institutions are required to carry out manual transactions and update the Ifmis accordingly, but this has not been the case as expenditures in the counties have always been done manually under the guise that the “system is slow or not working.”

For instance, the Lamu County Government had discrepancies amounting to Sh5 billion in financial statements and Ifmis.

STATEMENTS

The county also failed to prepare Ifmis bank reconciliation statements.

“The management did not prepare bank reconciliation statements for all the bank accounts under the Ifmis system as required by the National Treasury and the Public Sector Accounting Standards Board,” the auditor said of Lamu County Government.

“Instead, bank reconciliations were prepared from balances recorded in the manual cash books, which did not capture all the payment transactions in both recurrent and development vote.”

Baringo, Kajiado, Nandi, Narok, Siaya and Tharaka-Nithi counties were also cited among those that recorded discrepancies.

Mr Jerome Ochieng’, the director of Ifmis, said using the financial system should be made mandatory at the national and county level before any transaction is approved and made.

RECORDS

Currently, national and county government transactions, including salaries, various payments and procurement, are done and approved using the paper work before updating the Ifmis.

“I would not know under what circumstances they failed to capture in the Ifmis because from our end, we expect everything transacted in the system,” Mr Ochieng’ said.

The Kericho County Government was cited as one of the counties that kept two parallel systems – Ifmis and a manual system.

According to the county’s Ifmis vote book, the total outstanding commitments amounted to Sh121.2 million over the period under review with an unreconciled variance of Sh25.4 million.

This variance means that the accuracy and completeness of the financial statements cannot be confirmed, according to the auditor-general.

DEVOLVE IFMIS

Marakwet West MP Kangogo Bowen said the national government should devolve Ifmis servers to make it more effective.

He said it is not an online live system and it remains open to abuse by those who want to propagate corruption and other “improper accounting regimes.”

“During my time in the Public Accounts Committee of the National Assembly, we recommended that Ifmis be decentralised to the counties so that, as opposed to a centralised server at the Treasury, each county will have its own server,” Mr Bowen said.

The legislator explained that the servers at the counties will then be required to send information to the main server at the National Treasury on a monthly basis.

BACKLOG

He said that the backlog of approvals pending at the National Treasury is the reason why the system is slow, opening up to abuse of the manual system.

In the county government of Elgeyo Marakwet, where Mr Kangogo comes from, the variance between Ifmis records and financial statements stood at Sh2.8 billion.

The variance was recorded in receipts, payments, cash and bank, receivables and payables.

Mr Kangogo said that the auditor-general should that will slash budgets of counties that abuse the financial system.

Pretty easy to breakdown! The anatomy of grand theft! The beauty is it is straightforward! They buy a prado for ksh. 12M manually, and record later on the IFMIS 20M! the VARIANCE, also called DESCREPANCY IS 8M.

Ach, that is why Kenya needs the shock therapy of reality. That is not variance, that is the amount stolen. Fraud. --I read the HESY OF KAYOLE-DANDORA boast of social media after they had tracked the cop-killers of Kayole to Murang'a and killed them all in a 5-hour gun-battle: 'MALI YA SERIKALI HUWEZI UKAJIENJOY HIVO! HIVI NDIVYO WALE HUCHEZA NA HARD-WORKING KENYANS END. WANAOGELEA DAMA YAO!

Variance and descrepancy at every county! and they lived happily ever after, enjoying the proceeds of national plunder!

Poor Hesy! somebody give him some political education! --remember Alexander the Great!? he knelt down and wept coz there was no more territory to conquer! Would, he had looked up!
(But well the way they select coppers and killer coppers in Kenya, that lesson may just be a shot too far!

footnore WAPI MAKMENDE!

HESSY HAS A MESSAGE TO HUMAN RIGHTS AFTER POLICE OFFICERS WERE KILLED IN KAYOLE

Hessy Wa Dandora’s has a message to human rights groups after shooting of two police officers in Kayole. This is after two police officers from Kayole Police station, were shot and their firearms stolen by thugs who escaped using a motorcycle. The two police officers Constables Linus Inima and James Gitahi were shot in Kayole estate while in patrol.

The gang who killed the police officers were followed by police officers to Kenol in Muranga counry where a shoot out went down for almost five hours. The shoot out ended when the elite REECE Squad arrived and killed the thugs.

THIS is what Hessy said

“Hayawi hayawi huwa, mali ya serikali huezi enda nayo far. Cheki sasa #Kimondo,#Kinyanjui aka Kush and your new recruit Rot in Hell!!! #Teddy mahali uko ona sasa mbogi yako. Frm kayole(matopeni) to #kenol #CrimeDoesNotPay!”

Hessy wa Dandora Message
Hessy wa Dandora Message

The most surprising thing about Hessy wa Kayole is the amount of public support he receives on social media for eliminating criminals.

YOU MAY ALSO GET SHOCKED WHEN YOU SEE THIS VIDEO OF KASEE NAIROBI GANGSTER SHOOTING A POOR MAN AS HE ROBS A CHEMIST IN UTHIRU- CLICK TO SEE THE FULL CCTV VIDEO.

The overwhelming public support for execution of criminals by Hessy wa Kayole and Hessy wa Dandora seems to be lack of faith in the Kenya Judiciary as many pundits and human rights activists point out.


It has also been argued that the Hessy wa Kayole and his counterparts Hessy wa Dandora and Hessy wa Huruma are not real cops and also police have denied existent of such murderous squads within the Kenya police service.

Variance, descrepancy reads the auditory general's report on every page!? Ouko is a joke!

Some 'HESSY' sheriff with this auditor's report in his hand? lets have wagers! AYES, NAYES!

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BEFORE THE HESSY'S, UNLIKE ALEXANDER THE GREAT, LOOK UP!

I read: contrary to the law

In the 2016 county audit reports, Auditor-General Edward Ouko noted that the inconsistencies in majority of the 47 county governments' records made it difficult to confirm the accuracy and completeness of the expenditures.

VERIFICATION

“Documents were not presented for audit verification contrary to the law,” Mr Ouko said in the reports tabled in the Senate.

Read more: jukwaa.proboards.com/thread/9383/taming-office-auditor-general#ixzz4ykhzTVe1

The Public Procurement and Disposal Act requires the county accounting officer to maintain a filing system with clear links between procurement and expenditure files to facilitate an audit trail.

[/quote] documents were not presented for audit.

OH!? There is some law which demands and protocols the validation of accounting documents? where is it hidden?

Howbeit I have since nowhere read: that, in accordance with the law, (specific clauses quoted), the responsible officials who broke this law, culprits, have been arrested and arraigned before one or other of Maraga's nondescript juniors, to face the music. No, this important detail is missing. And further, taking stock of the DPP Keriako Tobiko's office, there is a fat chance of that. This office has more the look of an empty shell, or some other such forlorn scarecrow. When it comes to corruption, it more like inflicted with power failure. It may be having the urge, like the EACC, but wholy lacks in surge, like a dead socket. But show the prosecutors the videos of Babu Owino shouting –-the recognised Uchawi chant--- TIALALA TIBIM at a rally, then does Old Bones Keriako show lithe movement and lethal surge!



Kinoti the new Kiraithe Owino was about to pitch the crowd was rented, then changed his mind.



Meanwhile, from far-away Kisumu, I consulted my private attorney in Nairobi. I wanted him to investigate a no-cure no-pay option, whether I could take it upon my law-abiding self, the panya law allowing, to do some patriotic duty whilst him, self-profiteers as a true blooded son of Mumbi. Armed with the AG-reports in my solicitor's able hands, the task of prosecuting the offenders and recovering the stolen money seemed worth my time. I hooked the man by suggesting his homework if he did, could leave us a large cut for ourselves: FINDERS COMMISSION.

The godd-amn man is keeping me waiting. He is a Kikuyu anyway, so, in enthralled greed, he is likely still plotting how best to rip everybody off in the case! I am sure he is hard at work.

Remember the United States Constitution? There is a clause which allows private citizens to hunt down debtors and tax-jumpers, bring back part of the spoils to the government, but keep a substantial portion of it as finders dues! –-Donald Trump has upped the ante some.

April 14 2017:
The IRS Is Using Private Debt Collectors Again

Last year, Congress authorised the Internal Revenue Service to use private debt collectors to go after unpaid tax liabilities—and this month, if you are one of the unfortunate, you may have already had the pleasure first-hand. The U.S. Treasury hopes to assign up to 1,000 delinquent accounts a month to each of four different companies, which will be able to keep 25 percent of the tax bills they collect.

In similar fashion, seeing neither Keriako Tobiko nor Eduard Ouko are up to it, nor some Okiya Omtatah nor some other community good Samariatan, I was pulsing my private attorney to boast me his reading of the law. –--Can I confine the ODM governors of Nyanza to Kamiti/Kodiaga maximum, for ….... see the Auditor General's specifications?

No, I am not interested in the Kamitification of the governors of Tharaka Nithi, Bungoma, Murang'a or some other such sh!thole, I am only interested in the purification of the Luo heartland's, by decanting off the film of filth which the popular party has clogged the lungs of public administration with.

My own Homa Bay has even more juice

Flames razed Homa Bay County Government Headquarters on Friday morning.

According to reports, several offices including that of Homa Bay Governor Cyprian Awiti were destroyed. The fire, which started at about 12.30 am Friday, burnt down all property and important documents in the County Finance and Procurement Departments.

The fire started in offices of two departments. People who arrived at the scene of the inferno said it was arson. They said the fire was started by people who are suspected to have used petrol.

The unknown men are said to have used a white saloon car which they parked on the road near the gate before one of them alighted and lit the fire. "This fire was caused by three unfamiliar men who were in a white salon car.

They came and parked near the gate before one of them sneaked in and lit the fire," said a resident. It was not clear where the security guards were when the suspected arsonists struck. However, the suspect was noticed when he was returning to the vehicle after lighting the fire.

Ya! While, nationally, the local ace Opondo Kaluma waxes eloquent parading the woes of institutionalised historical discrimination that has, by –--Kikuyu-- design, befallen the Kavirondo entity and tethered us to backwardness, we at home enjoying the devolution Raila has brought are busy setting our accounting offices on fire to destroy the evidence of ODM-party theft!

Eh! between Awiti and Muraguri (of the M-afya House) I don't see the difference!



Shudder at the thought of the looming Kavirondo republic under the ODM one-party monopoly! Finance minister John Suba Mbadi will look at you the way David Rotich and Patrick Njoroge looked at the nation, faced with the question of the disappeared Eurobond! And, taking of the NYS scam, I tell you Homa Bay has her county version of Josephine Kabura –-road tenders this time!

www.the-star.co.ke/sections/latest-news/devolved-corruption_c401482

And, dare I say

Gladys Wanga will be more eloquent apportioning the blame of the fire (which consumed the accounting office) to the Electrical company and their faulty connections, than to colluding own party malfeasance. I wager she would rank –-the then GoK liar!tch---- Dr. Alfred Mutua on his dismissal of the Kroll report! –--(innuendoistic, sham, immaterial and a baseless political gimmick!!)
Kroll of course did not help its reputation by loosing her tongue at the supreme moment!

Kroll said last night it could not confirm or deny the authenticity of the report.

The Kroll investigation into the former regime was commissioned by President Mwai Kibaki shortly after he came to power on an anti-corruption platform in 2003. It was meant to be the first step towards recovering some of the money stolen during Mr Moi's 24-year rule, which earned Kenya the reputation as one of the most corrupt countries in the world.

But soon after the investigation was launched, Mr Kibaki's government was caught up in its own scandal, known as Anglo Leasing, which involved awarding huge government contracts to bogus companies.
Since then, none of Mr Moi's relatives or close allies has been prosecuted. No money has been recovered. Three of the four ministers who resigned after the Anglo Leasing scandal was exposed have since been reinstated.
Last night, the Kenyan government confirmed that it received the Kroll report in April 2004. But Alfred Mutua, the government spokesman, said it was incomplete and inaccurate, and that Kroll had not been engaged to do any further work.

"We did not find that the report was credible. It was based a lot on hearsay." He said the leaking of the report was politically motivated and insisted Kenya was working with foreign governments to recover the stolen money. "Some of the money is in UK bank accounts. We have asked the British government to help us recover the funds, but so far they have refused."

The 110-page report by the international risk consultancy Kroll, seen by the Guardian, alleges that relatives and associates of Mr Moi siphoned off more than £1bn of government money. If true, it would put the Mois on a par with Africa's other great kleptocrats, Mobutu Sese Seko of Zaire (now Democratic Republic of Congo) and Nigeria's Sani Abacha.

NB In Kisumu we proposed at a public hearing, that, if he is not ODM kifaranga as Ranguma claims, our emeritus professor of a Solomonic governor should institute our own Kavirondo version of the Kroll inquiry into the Mobutist Ranguma administration. Was that a hint of a snort from the professor turned governor!?

pesacheck.org/how-much-cash-has-kisumu-county-received-from-the-national-government-in-the-last-3-years-c1eac0166b26

SYSTEMIC: Last year, and year before, it is the same story

Auditor-general's report shows billions can't be accounted for in counties
Tuesday November 22 2016
In Homa Bay, Mr Ouko questioned a Sh342.8 million variance in the purchase of goods and services as well as a Sh6.8 million difference in the payment of employees.
The audit report said that the county had omitted Sh26.4 million imprests in its documents when the audit was done.
In the period under review, the Auditor-General says, the county paid out Sh123 million to a contractor and a consultant for the construction of Kadongo-Gendia Road even before the two were declared non-performing and the contract terminated.
Similarly, the county paid Sh5.7 million for the maintenance of two roads (Nyalkini-Imbo and Omoya-Pineapple) for work that was never done, said the Auditor-General.
Mr Ouko also questioned a Sh4.9 million payment for VIP toilets and changing rooms at the Homa Bay Stadium whose construction was still ongoing, six months after its supposed completion date.

And so we burnt the finance office!
These Kikuyus I tell ya! They are everywhere!

There is Luo SIGUEYA about WANG'O DERO! –--a Luo kitendawili about the well-fed man of no thought for the morrow, who urged the people to burn the granary!

That is where my Homa Bay county with her obese governor is today! –-TIALALA TIBIM!

Why would Ouru go and Awiti remain!?

Because all governors would have to go! Here is another clue!

REVENUE
In the report for the 2015/16 financial year, some of the county assemblies, like Nairobi for instance, also failed to bank revenues running into millions of shillings.

The city county, says Mr Edward Ouko, failed to bank Sh69.5 million it earned from revenues.
This is beside failure by the House to account for Sh207 million it used in the purchase of goods and services.
The Assembly, Mr Ouko says, spent Sh510 million on goods and services, but expenditure amounting to Sh207 million was not supported by detailed ledger record.
“In the circumstance, it was not possible to confirm the propriety of the unsupported expenditure of Sh207 million on use of goods and services.”

Nairobi CEO was of course another Homa Bay man, the fallen Sugar Deity, Dr. Evans! these Kikuyus are everywhere I tell ya!

But if you thought the new lot of hard talkers are any better, lets talk about the toughest of them all, Francis Kimemia over there at Laikipia –-where they massacre cows, invade ranches and have other troubles less than Northern Irish ones of late.

Continued:

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FOOTNOTE KIMEMIA AND IRINGO

REVENUE
In the report for the 2015/16 financial year, some of the county assemblies, like Nairobi for instance, also failed to bank revenues running into millions of shillings.
The city county, says Mr Edward Ouko, failed to bank Sh69.5 million it earned from revenues.
This is beside failure by the House to account for Sh207 million it used in the purchase of goods and services.
The Assembly, Mr Ouko says, spent Sh510 million on goods and services, but expenditure amounting to Sh207 million was not supported by detailed ledger record.
“In the circumstance, it was not possible to confirm the propriety of the unsupported expenditure of Sh207 million on use of goods and services.”

Nairobi CEO was of course another Homa Bay man, the fallen Sugar Deity, Dr. Evans.

But if you thought the new lot of hard talkers are any better, lets talk about the toughest of them all, Francis Kimemia over there at Laikipia –-where they massacre cows, invade ranches and have other troubles less than Northern Irish ones of late.

Continued

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Blow for Iringo and Kimemia in Sh2.9bn case

Sunday September 17 2017


Former Budalang'i MP Ababu Namwamba.

Mr Namwamba was the chair of the Public Accounts Committee when the committee recommended Mr Kimemia and Mr Iringo be held responsible for presiding over a Sh2.9 billion scandal. PHOTO | ANTHONY OMUYA |

NATION MEDIA GROUP 

In May this year, the Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission (EACC) recommended to the DPP to close the case, saying there was no evidence that the money was embezzled.

The money was part of “confidential” expenditure in the ministry, a vote that runs into billions of shillings each year and which can be utilised in a variety of ways at the discretion of the Interior PS, such as mounting emergency police operations and buying intelligence.
The PAC, which was chaired by Budalang’i MP Ababu Namwamba , recommended that Mr Iringo and Mr Kimemia be held responsible for presiding over the scandal.

By KIPCHUMBA SOME

The Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) Keriako Tobiko has opposed a recommendation to close a case in which former Interior Principal Secretary Mutea Iringo and Nyandarua Governor Francis Kimemia are accused ofmisappropriating more than Sh2.9 billion.

In May this year, the Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission (EACC) recommended to the DPP to close the case, saying there was no evidence that the money was embezzled.

However, on July 3, Mr Tobiko directed that further investigations be conducted, according to EACC’s quarterly report which was published in Friday’s Kenya Gazette.

The case arose from recommendations by Parliament’s Public Accounts Committee (PAC) in 2014 that Mr Iringo and Mr Kimemia, as the accounting officers in the Office of the President, be investigated for the loss of the funds during the 2012/2013 financial year. Mr Kimemia was the Head of Public Service at the time.

CONFIDENTIAL EXPENDITURE

The money was part of “confidential” expenditure in the ministry, a vote that runs into billions of shillings each year and which can be utilised in a variety of ways at the discretion of the Interior PS, such as mounting emergency police operations and buying intelligence.
For long, this money has been the subject of public debate with claims persisting that it is often diverted to personal accounts of those in charge of it. “The accounting officer (Ministry of Internal Security) was found to have adhered to the above (Public Finance Management Regulations),” said EACC in their final report into the case.

The explosive PAC report of December 2014 on government spending for the financial year revealed that auditors unearthed a secret account at National Bank where Sh2.8 billion was wired and spent on items marked as ‘confidential’.

The NBK fund was masked as a general account and was used to withdraw huge sums of money whose expenditure was not documented ahead of the 2013 General Election, the PAC report said.
“It seems customised to irregularly facilitate unlimited cash withdrawals beyond the set limits,” the committee said and concluded that the Sh2.9 billion expenditure “was so opaque and smacks of loss, wastage, misapplication and pilferage”.

HELD RESPONSIBLE

The PAC, which was chaired by Budalang’i MP Ababu Namwamba , recommended that Mr Iringo and Mr Kimemia be held responsible for presiding over the scandal.
Both Mr Kimemia and Mr Iringo were the accounting officers in the Office of the President at the time. “To circumvent the established regulations, the ministry operates an account at National Bank of Kenya that is parallel to the regular account at the Central Bank of Kenya,” said the PAC report.

The Internal Security ministry controls a large budget running into billions of shillings and is in charge of the police service, Directorate of Criminal Investigations, Immigration, Government Printer as well as the National Authority for Campaign against Alcohol and Drug Abuse.
Mr Iringo was appointed the Principal Secretary in the ministry of Interior in June 2013 by President Kenyatta, but was moved to the Defence ministry in the same capacity in August 2014.
SACKED
He was eventually sacked alongside five Cabinet Secretaries in March 2015 who were named in an EACC dossier on senior government officials who were being investigated for corruption.
Mr Kimemia was sacked after he was mentioned in the EACC dossier. He won the Nyandarua gubernatorial seat this year.
Mr Iringo tried his hands in politics and vied for the Imenti North parliamentary seat on the Jubilee Party ticket but lost at the party primaries in April.

The party then nominated him to the East African Legislative Assembly in Arusha, Tanzania, but Parliament is yet to approve the list of nominees.

Mr Kimemia was named as the Secretary to the Cabinet by President Kenyatta when he announced his government in April 2013, but was sacked after he was mentioned in the EACC dossier. 

He won the Nyandarua County gubernatorial seat during last month’s General Election.

when recycling garbage is a national passtime at the top!

Kimemia, another paragon of loot to be white washed!

There is still room to dig deeper while we are in this hole! Lets get it done with. The national secret is, Kenya's state accountants are like that joke Robert Mugabe cracked: ''they award degrees in theft in those Kenyan universities!' the sleeping-sickness prone old dictator opted in a moment of rate wakefulness!

FOOTNOTE:

STANDARD: Thursday, March 12th, 2015

Ababu Namwamba names Speaker Justin Muturi in PAC probe, says his life in danger

Namwamba alleges the recording proves members of his committee including his vice chairperson, Cecily Mbarire, received a Sh1.5 million bribe from Iringo and the promise of defence contracts to delete any adverse mentions of the PS in an audit

What started as corruption claims against Public Accounts Committee ( PAC) Chairman Ababu Namwamba and his members has grown wings and is now threatening the integrity of the entire National Assembly and its leadership.

The integrity of Parliament was called into question again Thursday when Namwamba, whose secret recording of an MP dropping names of colleagues who reportedly picked bribes from a senior State official has caused an uproar, accused Speaker Justin Muturi of meddling in investigations.
It was a day of high-drama Thursday as probe team listened to the recording by Namwamba where adverse claims are made against PAC Vice Chairperson Cecile Mbarire and Nyatike MP Omondi Anyanga, who is said to have collected the bribe cash ostensibly to share with PAC members. The two MPs also appeared before the probe team but denied the allegationsbeing made against them on the tape recording that is now going round in social media.

The Orange Democratic Movement secretary general, who is fighting to clear his name over allegations he was bribed to alter a report following investigations into Sh2.9 billion funneled out of secret accounts under Office of the President, dragged the Speaker’s name into the investigations by the House Powers and Privileges Committee.
The Budalang’i MP accused Muturi of poking his nose into the committee’s investigations.
“The Speaker is interfering with this matter. He is expressing too much interest in this matter,” claimed Namwamba.

MUTURI’S REACTION

He particularly took issue with Muturi’s reaction to a letter he had addressed privately to him but which the Speaker was said to be preparing to respond to on the floor of the House.
“I state right from the beginning that I am starting to get worried by the inordinate interests that the Speaker is showing in the work of this committee. Why would the Speaker keep on making reactionary or staccato rulings from the chair on matters under interrogation?” Namwamba wondered.
His remarks on the Speaker followed a statement by the Powers and Privileges Committee Chairman Moses Cheboi that the Speaker intended to respond on the floor of the House to a damming letter by Namwamba to the Speaker, in which he had cast aspersions on the integrity of several members of PAC.
“Why should he respond on the floor of the House about a letter which I wrote to him? He should write back to me directly. There are forces that want to disable the committee before it concludes the work before it,” Namwamba sensationally claimed.

Namwamba by extension accused the House Business Committee (HBC), chaired by Muturi, of failing to prioritise reports tabled by the watchdog committee, specifically the ‘Hustlers’ Jet report, which he said he tabled a year ago.

The report covers the controversial hiring of a jet to take Deputy President William Ruto to various African capitals to lobby against the Kenyan trials at The Hague.
Namwamba, a lawyer by profession, claimed there were questions hanging as to why the report had never been considered for debate by the HBC, yet PAC was ever being accused of failing to table its investigative reports.

“The ‘Hustlers’ Jet report was tabled on April 24, last year. That is almost one year ago now. The question I want to pose is why has it never been listed in the House for debate?” he asked.
Namwamba further wants corruption investigations his committee is undergoing extended to other House committees that he said are tainted by bribery claims.
He argued it would be an exercise in futility to only probe the watchdog committee, when the integrity of the entire House was in question due to improprieties in committees.
“This is fantastic opportunity to tackle issues of integrity head-on. Every other issue that has impugned on the integrity of this House should be put under similar scrutiny. Let us extend investigations into other committees. I want to hope that the Speaker will extend these investigations to deal with the rest of the questions hanging over this House,” he said.

For the first time, the media was allowed into the proceedings, with a number of MPs sympathetic to Namwamba also crowding the small committee room where the proceedings took place.
There were dramatic moments after Namwamba played a recording of what he alleged was a confession by Nakuru Town West MP Samuel Arama that he had received money to share with members of the committee. In the tape, Namwamba is heard conversing with Orange Democratic Movement party leader Raila Odinga, Arama and ODM Director of Elections Junet Mohammed.
The content of the tape has been a source of speculation, with Namwamba insisting that it is proof that several members of the committee had received bribes behind his back.
Members, however, insisted on knowing the source of the recording, but Namwamba gave little information on it.
“Who are the people in the recording? As Ababu, did you know that the recording was taking place? Did the others whose voices are in the tape also know?” Namwamba was challenged to disclose by Jamleck Kamau (Kigumo).
The MP, however, declined to reveal the source of the recording.

WOMAN’S VOICE

At one point in the recording, a woman’s voice is heard. Asked by Kikuyu MP Kimani Ichung’wa who the voice belongs to, Namwamba claimed that it belonged to one of the workers at the venue of the conversation.
And in a new twist to the saga, the MP claimed that his life in is danger, alleging that powerful forces wanted to eliminate him.
“I want it to be known that as I walk away, I am not entirely safe. I will be visiting the Criminal Investigations Department to raise concerns about my life and that of my family. May it be recorded that I shared these concerns with the committee,” said Namwamba.
A trip made by members of the committee to Hyderabad India was one of the highlights of the grilling session, where MPs are alleged to have received favours.
Besides Namwamba, those who were in the trip were MPs John Sakwa Bunyasi, Jessica Mbalu, Kyengo Katatha Maweu, Omondi Anyanga, James Bett and Gonzi Rai.

Later, three MPs who had adversely been mentioned by Namwamba as having received Sh1.5 million bribe allegedly given by Defence Principal Secretary Mutea Iringo met the probe committee where they denied the allegations.

Mbarire, Anyanga and Kareke Mbiuki denied ever receiving the money from the PS.
They accused Namwamba of peddling falsehoods in a bid to win sympathy and be retained in the powerful watchdog committee.
Anyanga, who Namwamba alleged was given the money by Iringo at Silver Springs Hotel, denied ever meeting the PS.
He also turned the heat on Namwamba over allegations that he had attempted to solicit favours during a probe mission in Hyderabad, India, saying he only expressed anger at how Namwamba handled the booking of accommodation for members.
Mbiuki attacked Namwamba’s character and the manner in which he has steered PAC, claiming he has made it a “one-man-show”.
-Standardmedia.co.ke

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THE EASY MATH AND THE DUNDERHEADS



Josephat Nanok of Turkana, replaced Peter Munya of Meru as the chair of the council of governors. Munya has since lost his prefectorate.

Here is a bone to pick.

During his acceptance speech, the Turkana Governor stated that the fair conclusion of the Division of Revenue Allocation bill will form part of his agenda as he assumes office.
“I have just taken over office a few months before new governors are elected and sworn in. Our main agenda is finishing up the short term priorities that the council has which include the fair conclusion of the Division of Revenue Allocation Bill that allocates money to counties,” he stated

That is 2017.
It is important to strike an instructive note from the past. The harbinger was Onyango Oloo of Jukwaa

Thursday, April 04, 2013
Jubilee and the National Question in Kenya

A Digital Essay by Onyango Oloo

Even before it has been sworn in to formally assume office, the incoming Jubilee regime has lurched into its first crisis.

Press reports over the last few days detail a clash between the County Governors and the mandarins from Harambee Avenue.

On the face of it, the tensions are around releasing funds to the 47 counties to jump start operations for the new devolved units of administration and power.

Amazingly, some blinkered supporters of Uhuruto have, in their outbursts online, blithely reduced the governor’s complaints to quibbling and carping over the privilege of flying flags in their limousines.

This attempt to trivialize such a key issue is a worrying and warning sign of things to come, especially as these sentiments were echoed by none other than the outgoing president Mwai Kibaki himself when he was in Naivasha: --“What we are witnessing is pure nonsense with those obsessed with power in the newly created structures in the constitution”.
Here is how the People newspaper, part of Uhuru Kenyatta’s Media Max media conglomerate, reported on the incident:

It is a mini Greek tragedy in the offing. Ripening slowly and expertly at sure hands of incompetence, negligence, reckless wastage and runaway thievery. The story of cash wars.



Greek mini tragedy it may be, but no heroes here, nor –-do they call it---- a God outta Machine ending? The bills will just have to be paid. We don't do ODIOUS DEBTS no more. Bones will have to be broken and ground, to pay up and repay whoever our creditors –--on whose current Trojan Horse largesse we keep afloat---- may be.

Deus ex machina

The term has evolved to mean a plot device whereby a seemingly unsolvable problem is suddenly and abruptly resolved by the inspired and unexpected intervention of some new event, character, ability or object. Its function can be to resolve an otherwise irresolvable plot situation, to surprise the audience, to bring the tale to a happy ending, or act as a comedic device.

I do believe in miracles. I am in church most Sundays!

Ouko chronicles the prelude before the Icarus crash.

But, as a tenderpreneur in debt demanding delayed payments from the county government!?

Delay of funds disbursement is violation of law, Governors say

By Geoffrey Mosoku | October 13th 2017

IN SUMMARY Governors say they have had to borrow money from commercial banks Nanok says the Senate formula shows all 47 counties should get Sh330 billion Operations in most counties have been paralysed after the National Treasury failed to disburse funds for four months. The Council of Governors (CoG) is protesting against what it terms continued denial of the much-needed cash even after the Senate cleared a disbursal schedule.

ALSO READ: Why Governors want to retrench county workers

The formula approved by Senate indicates the 47 counties are entitled to Sh330 billion, but only Sh7.6 billion was sent to 19 counties in August. Most counties have been borrowing from commercial banks to pay salaries, with the CoG warning that this is no longer sustainable. “The continued delay and breach of the law has led to untold suffering for citizens and led to interrupted delivery of services and stalling of development projects," said CoG chairman Josphat Nanok in a letter to Treasury Cabinet Secretary Henry Rotich dated October 10. "Counties continue to incur costs when they borrow from the commercial banks to pay salaries," he added. “The purpose of this letter is, therefore, to inform you that legally the National Treasury is under obligation to release all the monies accrued for the past four months to the county governments..."

The letter is copied to Head of Public Service Joseph Kinyua, Clerk of the Senate Jeremiah Nyegenye and all county finance executives. Without amendment Yesterday, the Senate said it had written to Mr Rotich indicating it had passed the Cash Disbursement Schedule without amendment and in the form which it was forwarded from Treasury. “We therefore advised Treasury to disburse the funds as per schedule and further recommend that Treasury forwards proposed amendments to the County Allocation of Revenue Act 2017 and the disbursement schedule to address its concerns," read Mr Nyegenye’s letter to Nanok dated October 10.

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Read more at: www.standardmedia.co.ke/article/2001257217/counties-cry-out-over-severe-cash-crunch

"We have not received any further correspondence from Treasury on this matter and therefore trust that Treasury will proceed as advised." So far, the only counties that have received partial disbursement are Bomet (Sh376.8 million), Busia (Sh408 million), Embu (308.6 million), Homa Bay (456.6 million), Isiolo (Sh264.2 million), Kericho (Sh365.7 million), Kiambu (Sh705.3 million) and Kirinyaga (Sh308.6 million). Others are Laikipia (Sh315 million), Machakos (Sh544.8 million), Nairobi (Sh914 million), Narok 456.6 million), Nyandarua (Sh334 million), Samburu (Sh266.4 million), Taita Taveta (Sh272.7 million), Tharaka Nithi (Sh257.9 million), Uasin Gishu (Sh399.5 million), Vihiga (Sh308.6 million) and West Pokot (Sh331.9 million). Senate approved the disbursement mid-last month and according to the schedule, more than Sh330 billion is to be given to the counties by June 2018.

Monthly transfer

“This is to bring to your attention that on Thursday, September 14, 2017, the Senate considered and approved the Cash Disbursement Schedule in order to enable operationalisation of monthly transfer of funds from the Consolidated Fund account to the Respective County Revenue Accounts,” Nyegenye wrote to Principal Secretary Kamau Thugge on September 17, copied to Rotich and Kinyua. Nyegenye’s letter was in response to the PS’s circular dated July 20, 2017, that informed the Senate that Treasury, in consultation with the budget committee of the Intergovernmental Budget and Economic Council (IBEC), had finalised cash disbursements for the financial year 2017-2018.

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“The purpose of this letter is to forward to you the 2017-2018 County Government’s Cash Disbursement Schedule, for consideration and approval,” read Dr Thugge’s letter. [e-mail]

That is the footwork of the angels in Nairobi!

But how did the local angels, Their Excellences the Governors, on behalf of you and I, spend the disbursed monies in the last financial years!?

The Auditor General's report and the chronicles of the state controller of budgets may give a clear clue.

It is actually a financial horror story, an accounting holocaust, but no worries, economics is a wonderful discipline. Japan has a debt-to-GDP ratio of 270%, the USA 120%, and nobody is talking about a pyramid scheme of debt! What then is the hassle with the Zamunda Kavirondo republics with their less than 20% debt/GDP!? (i hear it is merely because we neither manufacture credit in our own fishy currency, nor is our fishy currency a RESERVE bond, where other protectorate states are bonded to keep their futures!)

Who says that imperialist agenda is impossible for us!?

Audit reveals theft and plunder of public funds in the counties

Saturday July 18 2015

The Auditor-General has released reports exposing ruthless expenditure of devolved resources in the county governments and blatant theft of public funds in what paints a dark future for devolution.
The conspiracy to misuse funds both by the county governments and assemblies is believed to be the reason behind instant village millionaires in many regions.
Several county executive and county assembly audit reports signed by Auditor-General Edward Ouko expose massive corruption and a careless spending culture in total disregard of existing procurement regulations even as the clamour for more cash continues.

And then 2017

Audit General Edward Ouko reveals misuse of funds by county assemblies

By Patrick Kibet | Published Fri, November 17th 2017

www.standardmedia.co.ke/article/2001260442/audit-general-edward-ouko-reveals-misuse-of-funds-by-county-assemblies

The Auditor General has revealed widespread misuse of public funds through weak financial controls and failure to properly account to spent funds in county assemblies. In Baringo county assembly, the report by Auditor General Edward Ouko raised questions on the construction of cafeteria in the county assembly at a cost of Sh17 million. ALSO READ: Auditor queries billions unaccounted for in Central counties The report shows the county assembly contracted Kwangu Holdings Limited to supply kitchen equipment worth Sh309,000 while Brand House Solution Limited was to supply goods worth Sh348,075. However, a further analysis shows the county paid Sh20,000 for a wooden meat chop board and Sh54,000 for a pot stacking rack, both of which appeared to have been fabricated in a local workshop

Every year the same story at your local.

How about the center, Nairobi!? How reads the audit reports!?

I still believe in miracles.

Which will force me to take a look at (PS finance) Kamau Thugge, the disburse and the lecturer's strike!

is he cash-crunched?

[jakaswanga]

toward a vindication of the Auditor General?

NIS dossiers drive Uhuru's war on graft

Jun. 04, 2018,

President Uhuru Kenyatta relies on confidential reports prepared by the National Intelligence Service to wage his new ruthless war against corruption, as the government begins unprecedented vetting of senior officials.

The government will also rely heavily on the Auditor General’s reports, as indications of financial indiscipline, to root out graft and nail corrupt procurement chiefs, accounting officers, and unscrupulous traders.

The Jubilee administration previously has criticised Auditor General Edward Ouko for his zeal in identifying myriad financial improprieties.

On Madaraka Day last Friday, Uhuru announced fresh vetting plans for top accounting and procurement officers — complete with polygraph or lie-detector tests — to be carried out by the end of this month.

Heads will roll and they will include senior officials, he said.

Employing such technology to fight corruption is a first by the Kenyan government. The augmented graft war means that both the masterminds of graft and their networks, the big and small fish, could be demolished soon.

"Those who shall fail the vetting will stand suspended," Uhuru announced, saying that corrupt officials must be put in jail.

Also read: NYS suspects could lose assets to state

Procurement departments in the government and state parastatals are known as citadels of sleaze, as many officers dish out lucrative contracts for inflated sums and receive huge kickbacks.

The Star has established that for weeks now, the NIS has trained its sights on government departments and well-funded parastatals with budgets in the multi-billion shillings.

Some of the departments are essential to implement the Big Four Agenda — healthcare, manufacturing, food security and affordable housing — that the President is hoping will secure his legacy, with only four years before he leaves office.

Left out in some of the latest big investigations, the Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission is hurriedly completing a high-profile case to redeem its image and demonstrate that it is not toothless, the Star has learnt.

The upcoming scandal could claim a Cabinet Secretary and other big names. The investigation files will be sent to DPP Noordin Haji by tomorrow.

"The files were just about to be dispatched on Thursday, but there were some small technical things that were still pending and unfortunately Friday was a public holiday," a source close to the investigation said.

The NIS is working alongside a multi-agency team quietly assembled by President Kenyatta to crack down on graft. The spy agency is at the centre of its operations.

Deputy head of Public Service Wanyama Musiambo, Kenyatta’s new anti-graft czar at State House, is one of many senior bureaucrats on the team.

Sources have told the star that NIS director general Phillip Kameru, who sits on the National Security Council, has been briefing the President regularly.

Kameru is a former director of the Kenya Defence Forces’ Military Intelligence.

He is seen as the shadowy figure behind the arrests on corruption charges of Public Service Principal Secretary Lillian Mbogo Omollo and NYS director general Richard Ndubai.

Ndubai and Omollo among more than 20 suspects in remand awaiting tomorrow’s bail hearing in connection with the NYS loss of Sh468 million.

"There is panic in government because the NIS is everywhere. People are being tracked right from Cabinet Secretaries," a highly placed source in the government told the Star.

Last month, NIS uncovered the rot in the NYS. Beleaguered Omollo accused Kameru of exaggerating the amount suspected to have been lost.

"All the vouchers submitted for investigations to the DCI amount to a total of Sh900 million. This is not even remotely close to the Sh8 billion figure that the Director-General of NIS is claiming is lost or stolen," Omollo said on May 12, in a memo to her boss, Margaret Kobia.

However, speaking to the Star yesterday, security expert Mwenda Mbijiwe said the spy agency had only just awakened because of pressure from the President.

"They are more reactive than proactive in dealing with corruption. Like any Kenyan prone to corruption, the NIS is also prone to corruption. If the NIS was working to fight corruption, then they could have picked it before it happened," Mbijiwe said.

On Friday Uhuru pledged that the war on graft would be relentless.

The new polygraph weapon measures and records physiological indices such as blood pressure, pulse, and respiration when a person is questioned. It notes the anomalies.

It's not clear how many heads of procurement and accounts are targetted in the new vetting expected to take no more than 60 days.

Yesterday, government spokesman Eric Kiraithe said he could not respond to queries about the vetting, as he was out of the country.

The vetting team will rely on audit and other reports in the fresh screening.

The Auditor General has previously exposed flawed procurement processes, general disregard for the public’s resources and outright theft.

Anomalies and irregularities were cited in audits of the National Social Security Fund, Geothermal Development Corporation, Kenya Pipeline Company, Kenya Airports Authority, and Uwezo Fund.

Investigations are underway into Kenya Power, Kenya Pipeline, and the National Cereals and Produce Board.

Ironically, the government was initially hostile to Ouko and accused him of reducing the annual audit exercise "to a ritual for tainting the integrity of public offices and a national executive committed to good governance."

On October 18, 2016, Uhuru publicly criticised Ouko’s plans to travel to Europe to investigate the Eurobond. He said that he himself had done everything possible to fight graft.

The new political unity between Uhuru and Opposition chief Raila Odinga has also given impetus to the anti-graft war.

Yesterday, Raila reiterated that he fully backs the ongoing crackdown on individual state officers and business people over what he termed the loss of billions of shillings in public funds.

"Mr Odinga remains committed to aiding the war on corruption from a wide and common front so as to remove any sanctuary where perpetrators can seek refuge as spelt out in the Building Bridges to the New Kenyan Nation... He agrees that communities and parties don’t steal, only individuals do," Raila’s spokesman Dennis Onyango said.

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NSI CONFIDENTIAL REPORTS DRIVING OURU'S WAR ON CORRUPTION!

Kwani these guys have not been reading the Auditor General's reports, all in the PUBLIC DOMAIN! Even the ones stolen by Waiguru, now known as NYS 1, are in the audits!

I hope this is an example of silly journalism!

NB: There is also the MAFYA HOUSE SCANDAL. An internal auditor flagged the transactions. Rotich promptly transferred him elsewhere!

DPP hAJI! even the Kroll report detailing Moi's theft, leave alone Biwott, is NOT CONFIDENTIAL!

Utoto tupu hapa jameni!

NB

Senior government officials tried to transfer the auditor who unearthed the Sh5 billion scandal at the Health ministry. Health Principal Secretary Nicholas Muraguri initiated the move, claiming the job needed more senior auditors and was backed by Treasury Cabinet Secretary Henry Rotich.

Read more: jukwaa.proboards.com/thread/9481/corruption-uhuru-kenyatta-throws-towel#ixzz5HTddHMce

confidential my arzhole!

PS Nicholas Muraguri wanted to eject auditor from Health ministry, letter shows


By Moses Michira | Published Wed, November 2nd 2016
Read more at: www.standardmedia.co.ke/health/article/2000221833/ps-muraguri-wanted-to-eject-auditor-from-ministry-letter-shows

A letter seen by The Standard calling for the transfer of Mr Muchere and his team was authored only weeks after his arrival in June at Afya House.

Dr Muraguri wrote to Rotich on July 12 asking for the posting of “internal auditors in senior positions” apparently to replace Muchere and his team. “The purpose of this letter, therefore, is to request for posting of internal auditors in senior positions who are conversant with audit of donor projects and other funds,” Muraguri wrote in the letter dated July 12, 2016.


But instructions scribbled on July 19 on the letter, apparently by Rotich, directs the Internal Auditor General, the boss of the auditors, to “get a senior officer for the ministry and redeploy the current one to another ministry.”

Muchere is the president of the Association of Certified Fraud examiners - Kenya Chapter.

Huge amounts

Read more at: www.standardmedia.co.ke/health/article/2000221833/ps-muraguri-wanted-to-eject-auditor-from-ministry-letter-shows

Henry Rotich thought Muchere, president of the association of certified fraud examiners, wasn't good enough for this job at the ministry of health!

Muchere had of course gave the books at the ministry one look and smelled the rot out, immediately!

Now it is taking the director general of intelligence, Waweru, and his former counter-terrorism adviser, DPP Haji, working all the way past midnight to reveal these things to Mr. Kenyatta!?

1. Keriako Tobiko should be in jail. ---Negligence! (but of course, Ouru's anti graft war is just hot air!)

[jakaswanga]

THE PERFECT TEMPLATE FOR ROT: THE SUCCESSION LACUNA

Auditor-General Auko retires and warns on successor

Moses Njagih 28th Aug 2019


Auditor General Edward Ouko when he appeared before the Senate County Public and Investment Committee at County Hall, Nairobi on Wednesday 24/04/19. [Boniface Okendo,Standard]


Outgoing Auditor General Edward Ouko has said loopholes in law guiding public audit have made the office toothless.


He also warned that ongoing audit work would be greatly compromised due to lack of a substantive Auditor General.

Ouko called for comprehensive review of the Public Audit Act, which he complained does not make audit reports actionable.

This, he said, deals a huge blow to efforts of holding to account those responsible for looting and embezzlement of public funds.


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Ouko spoke in his final media engagement following the end of his eight-year term on Monday.


He also protested the lacuna in the law, which he said fails to guide transition, a situation that has led to him leaving office without a substantive successor, or even any process to recruit the next Auditor General being put in place.

Ouko warned that the lack of a substantive holder of the position could hold back crucial reports that are in the final stages of the audit process and which require to be tabled in Parliament, but which cannot be forwarded as the law requires that they must be signed by the Auditor General.

“I am leaving office, but I do not know who takes over...I do not know who will sign the reports that are due because I am not allowed to do it. This can demoralise auditors who are undertaking their duties. As we talk, there are some critical reports that are pending and unfortunately are likely to get lost,” he said.

Ouko said parliamentarians must avoid such lacuna in the law, which could be costly in the accountability processes.

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He said the law, whose review he has proposed in his exit report, should be amended to ensure that the process of appointing a successor is in place before the term of the incumbent lapses.

“This is not a political office where the Speaker has to declare a seat vacant. It beats logic why the process should not start early. Why wait until the term of incumbent has lapsed? For any document from this office to have the force of the law, it must be signed by the Auditor General, not anyone acting in that position."

But it is the lack of action plans for the many audit reports that his office has churned over the eight years he has been in office that appeared to be a major regret for Ouko, arguing that the Legislature must be bold enough to grant the office actionable powers.

“As things stand now, our reports are always greeted with the statement “the auditor has flagged down all these issues, so what? We would like actions defined in the law to avoid this question of so what?” he added.

Ouko said he has made proposals for the review of the Act, where the office calls for the formation of an oversight board in Parliament that would be tasked with the review and approval of budget of the Auditor’s office and also tasked with the appointment of the Auditor General.

SEE ALSO :NBK fights push for audit by Ouko office

Ouko said despite the challenges he faced in his tenure, which included a push by some senior elements in Government for his prosecution over the procurement of Oracle computer software, Audit Vault, and the unsuccessful petition for his removal through Parliament, he had a fulfilling term.

Yesterday, he recalled the turbulent moments when the forces had sought his prosecution, culminating with the Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission recommendations that he, together with seven others, be prosecuted for criminal offences relating to the procurement of the software.

But the then Director of Public Prosecution Keriako Tobiko came to his rescue, dismissing the EACC report.

Ouko is not yet decided on his next assignment, saying he first needs to re-organise his personal affairs that have greatly suffered over time.

Yes, one of the most corrupt countries of Africa does not, now, have a substantive auditor general in office!

We do understand each other very well in this country, don't we! ---where art thou, the sealer of holes?

Paraphrasing Fella Kuti: In this country the government shall leave no stone unturned to find a loophole for public money to leak!