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Auditor General calls for tighter law to penalise fiscal indiscipline

Auditor General Nancy Gathungu during the launch of an Audit Report on illicit Financial Flows in Africa on 10 March 2025. [Jenipher Wachie, Standard]

Auditor General Nancy Gathungu wants the Public Finance Management Act, 2012, amended to include sanctions for non-implementation of audit and Parliamentary recommendations, as part of measures to instil fiscal discipline.

Gathungu said her office’s audit recommendations are not always implemented and most recur in subsequent years due to lack of enforcement mechanisms and administrative sanctions.

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