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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Wajir East, WDM – K",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Rashid Kassim",
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        "legal_name": "Rashid Kassim Amin",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Speaker, for giving me an opportunity again, as a member of this Committee, to add my voice with regard to this 23rd Report of Public Investments Committee (PIC). Hon. Speaker, with regard to this Report, we have been able to capture about 48 State corporations and some of the queries and observations we have had are quite valid. One of the critical things we have realised is that these corporations have a massive engagement in terms of allocation of funding from the Exchequer. It is prudent for the oversight authority to read the Auditor-General’s Report in order to see whether those finances have been prudently utilised over the period of expenditure, and to look at the Standing Orders of 2006, which mandated the PIC to look at the audited books of those State corporations. We have made a number of observations. One of the critical observations is on ownership of properties, land and equipment. We realised that there are quite a number of pieces of land which belong to a number of State corporations that still do not have title deeds. A title deed is a key indicator of resources which are being held by those State corporations. Some of those State corporations are critical in terms of disposition of their mandate. The Kenya National Highways Authority (KeNHA) is one on those. The Kenya Airports Authority (KAA), which is currently under discussion, and as you have heard some of the pieces of land are not in their books indicating that they own them. The same applies to the National Housing Corporation (NHC), Kenya Pipeline Corporation (KPC) and Kenya Wildlife Service (KWS). Those are some of the critical observations, but this is not unique to only those. We have realised that quite a number of State corporations have land issues, which have not been properly documented and titles have not been received. Another critical observation that we have observed is that, the KWS has 222 parcels of land, but it is only 45 parcels which have been registered. The Kenya Co-operative Creameries (KCC) has five acres of land which have been encroached on, out of the 32.9 acres which are in their custody. So, this idea of not having title deeds to land which has been given to them is a recipe for the public encroaching on them and annexing them for their personal use. So, these are critical observations that we have looked at. One of the other issues that we have realised is that the procurement process and control of finances are not properly done. It does not comply with the Public Procurement Act of 2015. We have observed that construction of Miritini Road was awarded to Ms. Telewa Construction Company at an amount of Kshs.341 million. When this project was midway, it could not continue. The project was terminated, yet the company had been paid Ksh144.1 million — that is a colossal amount of money. Later, the project was awarded to SS Mehta to a tune of Ksh292 million, which The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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