Parliamentarians on Tuesday expressed their frustrations after a 4-year attempt to audit the Auditor-General turned futile.
According to Unguja MP James Opiyo Wandayi, previous attempts to contract a local firm to audit Edward Ouko's office have been fruitless.
The Public Service Committee (PSC) began the search for an auditor in June 2016 but no company has successfully bid for the tender despite some going past the bid approval stage.
This is attributed to the fact that most established local firms are often tendered in multi-million contracts by the AG to assist in his office's work.
As such, auditing their employer would lead conflict of interest and likely affect their future engagements with the AG yet the tender only amounted to Ksh8 million.
"In view of the said events, we have been unable to procure services of an auditor to scrutinise the accounts of the Auditor-General on account of non-responsiveness and conflict of interest.
"We have tried but always gotten a negative response. I really feel frustrated about this," House Clerk Michael Sialai noted.
The eight-year non-renewable term of the current Auditor-General is set to come to an end in August 2019.
In a letter dated January 30, the Clerk had asked the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) to hire an auditor from a Commonwealth country.
Among the firms that have previously bid the tender is RSM East Africa, M/s Baker Tilly Merali, Kiarie Kang'ethe and Co, and JG Bailey and Associates.
We have been unable to secure an auditor and it has been a disservice to the OAG that its accounts have not been audited," Sialai stated.
