Majority Leader Aden Duale has opposed a move to re-appoint a firm to audit the Auditor General’s account.
The re-appointment of M/S Baker Tilly Merali caused an uproar in parliament as a section of parliamentarians led by Duale objected the decision.
The re-appointment of the firm comes after a recruitment process that attracted four bids from different audit firms in the nation.
Duale and other leaders have rejected the move to appoint M/S Baker Tilly Merali, which has been working on the Auditor General’s account since 2011.
According to Auditor General Edward Ouko, the firm deserved a one year extension of its contract in order to audit the 2014-15 accounts.
Duale, however, mobilized the members of the House to reject the report presented by the PSC, arguing that the committee cannot use MPs as rubber stamps after they had already awarded the contract to the company in question.
“So what we are doing is just rubber-stamping a process which has already been concluded? I refuse to be part of it,” Duale said, as quoted by The Star.
Duale called for the repeat of the whole procurement process and accused the firm of incompetence.
“Despite being appointed by this House in 2012 and commissioned in 2013, this firm has not submitted a single report to the National Assembly, which is its employer,” he said.