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    "id": 1024316,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1024316/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mandera East, EFP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Omar Mohamed",
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        "id": 13416,
        "legal_name": "Omar Mohamed Maalim Hassan",
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    "content": "Another problem is failure to adhere to the Public Finance Management Act. It is disturbing to note that accounting officers take the Public Finance Management Act lightly. Many senior managers are in acting capacity. This is by design. The appointing authorities must take their responsibilities seriously to make sure that they appoint substantive CEOs and senior managers to these parastatals. A case in point is the Kenya Pipeline Corporation, where 95 per cent of the senior managers have been serving in acting capacity for five to six years. This is so disturbing. Another disturbing aspect is that contractors are not paid in time. It is by design that a contractor completes a project but he is not paid. He goes to court and the court awards him damages in terms of interest due to delayed payments. So, in the long run, a contractor is paid over and above the amount tendered for in that particular project. It is my prayer that the recommendations in this Report are adopted and followed up by the Implementation Committee of this House so that future or current CEOs can know that it is not business as usual; that, as a country, we are fighting corruption and wastage of public resources. The adoption of this Report should make the people mentioned therein to serve as an example. The Committee’s mandate was to investigative, and it has done its best in terms of identifying the real problems in these State corporations. I, therefore, request that this House takes this Report, PAC Reports and other Committee Reports seriously and pursue their recommendations to their logical conclusions. Committees like PIC are just investigative. They are on a fact-finding mission, after which they table reports in this House. I request Members to support this Report. I request that once this Report is adopted, the Implementation Committees takes over. With those remarks, I beg to support."
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