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    "id": 1024311,
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    "speaker_name": "Nominated, ANC",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Godfrey Osotsi",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, for the opportunity to also make my contribution to this very important Report. First, I thank the Committee for a job well done. I think the Chair of the Committee, Hon. Abdullswamad, is up to the task. And that confirms that you are ready to be the Governor of Mombasa. When you read this Report, which I have done, it reads like what is wrong in this country: issues of corruption, land grabbing, inefficiency and wastages in public organisations. It is a sad state of affairs. And action needs to be taken. This Parliament issues reports but the people who are supposed to implement these reports are sleeping on their work. If you read the entire Report, you realise that we have serious problems with the management and ownership of land belonging to State corporations. Most of the State corporations have land which is not in their titles. For example, the KWS have up to 222 pieces of land but only 45 pieces have titles. What is happening? The same scenario obtains at the KeNHA, KAA, NHC and KPC. The list is long. These issues have been coming up in every big report. So, where is the NLC to deal with these issues? Clearly, the leadership of these State corporations are also sleeping on their work. This cannot just be about inefficiency. This is inefficiency for the purpose of corruption, because the same people end up grabbing these pieces of land. I would like to highlight the case of KPA, where money was even issued to fence the airport and it has not been accounted for. The former CEO of KPA should be brought to book. Millions of shillings were taken from KPA but no work was done. We also have issues of delayed appointment of accounting officers and CEOs. Why would someone act as a CEO for six years? That is another problem. The PIC had recommended that the maximum period for acting in a position should be 12 months. But in most of these parastatals, you find people acting in positions for ever. Something has to be done about it. We also have issues of financial performance. I picked the example of KWS, which made a deficit of Ksh680 million in the 2016/2017 Financial Year. To date, KWS has an accumulated deficit of Ksh4.4 billion. Clearly, there is a problem. This Report confirms that the Government has no business doing business. Business should be left to the private sector. All these State corporations do not make any business sense. They need to close up or they should be privatised. Most importantly, as I finish, is the issue of implementation of recommendations of parliamentary committees, particularly this Committee. The issue of Mitihani House is a case in point. This particular project was 60 per cent done. Ten years later, we are still talking about it and we are still looking for money to complete it. Something is wrong. The DCI and the EACC have not acted on most of these reports. Something has to be done about this issue. Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. 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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