Nairobi, March 27 -- Principal Secretaries and chief executive officers of State corporations will not be allowed to reopen audit queries by presenting fresh documents which ought to have been submitted to the Auditor-General for scrutiny during the audit cycle.

The National Assembly's Public Accounts Committee (PAC) ruled that from the audit of the national government for the financial year 2022/23, Principal Secretaries and accounting officers of agencies will only be allowed to respond to audit queries and not to reopen the same by producing new documents.

"We have resolved as PAC that beginning 2022/23 financial year, we will only deal with the audit queries as presented by the Auditor-General. We will not use this House to reopen a...