Thursday October 17, 2019 – The National Assembly’s Public Accounts Committee has summoned
Defence Principal Secretary, Ibrahim Mohammed, to explain why Department of
Defense officials blocked officers from the Auditor General’s office from
auditing suspicious tender awards in the Ministry of Defence.
Addressing a Press Conference on Thursday, PAC chairman,
Opiyo Wandayi, ordered the Principal Secretary to avail all the documents from
the relevant officers for scrutiny without failure for record purposes.
Wandayi said it is saddening for officials to block such a
process from being conducted at the expense of accountability.
“You cannot just sit there and decide that you will go
against the orders of Parliament.”
“The orders that we gave for special audit must be complied
with... It is my ruling that DoD will allow the auditors to access any
documents they want,” Wandayi noted.
Earlier, DoD claimed that the Auditor-General wanted to go
through documents that had already been audited.
The Kenyan DAILY POST
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