CS MURKOMEN CALLS FOR LIFESTYLE AUDIT ON STATE OFFICERS AND PUBLIC SERVANTS
“In line with the current National conversation and to address the concerns that state and public officers are living beyond their means, I propose that Parliament urgently introduces and passes a Lifestyle Audit Bill to provide the parameters for auditing the state and public officers and to investigate their living standards to ascertain consistency with their lawful income,” he said in a statement on X.
At the burial of former PS Joseah Sang at Kapkatet, Kericho county earlier today, Murkomen said it is important for Kenyans to understand the status of their country and the infrastructures it holds. He said that audits should be done on all the Cabinet Secretaries annually to ascertain whether or not they have delivered on their mandates.
“I’m ready to account for every second that I go to my office at 6am and leave at 10pm. I’m ready to give an account of what the government has done in the last two years in my ministry and it should be the tradition,” Murkomen added that it is important for leaders to talk and follow with action.
“Why don’t we pass a law in Kenya for lifestyle audits? So that every year after office, we can do a lifestyle audit of every person who is holding public office so that people can’t just look at CS Murkomen alone to see how much I have dressed,” he added.
“It should be an orderly public position as a country where everybody goes through the same simple system. “The CS said that upon inheriting his office, he found a debt of Sh165 billion on road construction He blamed the previous regimes for not putting in place a plan for Kenya to live within its mean
