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    "id": 1013794,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Olekina",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 407,
        "legal_name": "Ledama Olekina",
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    "content": "Chairperson, Sen. Kasanga, to use the 30 days well and come up with a way that this House can put its feet done on issues of oversight. The key focus area for the Ad Hoc Committee is social, public order and human rights which will be affected most by the challenges that we are facing. If the Executive rated themselves as having done very many good things yet from the audit report that we received in the Joint meeting between the Committee on Health and the Ad Hoc Committee, one of the things that came out is damning. I am pleased with the current Auditor-General because she went out and did a thorough investigation. She came up with a damning report that if I were the investigating officer or prosecution officer in this country, the first things that I would do is to move to court just as they have been doing with the governors and seek orders that the entire board and management of KEMSA are out office. Why are the investigative agencies being selective? This House pronounces itself thorough Motions and Bills. The Ad Hoc Committee on COVID-19 Situation in Kenya came up with a Bill which was termed by the National Assembly as a money Bill so we could not succeed through that angle. Moving forward, for all these thematic areas to make sense and for us to say that we did not spend money in vain in the Ad Hoc Committee, it is about time that we take these reports and pass recommendations. We should thereafter a Motion to adopt the final report of the Ad Hoc Committee. I am happy to note that the thematic areas that the Ad Hoc Committee is concentrating on do not just touch the Committee on Health, the Committee on Finance and Budget and the County Public Accounts and Investment Committee. The report from the Ad Hoc Committee should be handed over to Committees with timelines where we expect to get feedback on the way forward. Otherwise, we will just be spending taxpayer’s money like we did in the Ad Hoc Committee on MES and at the end of the day come up with a report that will not help us move forward. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, in conclusion, I would say that it is about time that we pay attention to issues that will help us move forward. We must be pragmatic and honest. Most importantly, all the people who are tasked with the responsibility of ensuring medical personnel are provided with enough resources and not getting into a scheme that is selective. If you read the report on the COVID-19 funds that was presented before our Committee by the Auditor-General, you will cry. The entire procurement process was supplier driven. The suppliers would make deals with the people at KEMSA. The people at KEMSA went as far as dipping their hands into the universal health care fund in the pretext that they are funding COVID-19 expenditures yet the supplies are rotting in the KEMSA stores now. How can we claim that we are playing our role when such things are happening before our eyes? The Executive, Parliament and Judiciary must now have a conference where all the three arms of Government will be given enough time to state the rot in each of those institutions and find a way to have milestones on how we can cure the entire rot. Otherwise, five years after having diligently served this House, some of us will go on to become governors, others will come back to the Senate, others will go back to their professions while others will go to the National Assembly and we will not have done anything for Kenyans. We will just have lined our pockets for five years and enjoyed The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate."
}