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    "id": 1034755,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1034755/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Muranga CWR, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. (Ms.) Sabina Chege",
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        "legal_name": "Sabina Wanjiru Chege",
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    "content": "budgeting utilisation of appropriated funds towards the fight against the COVID- 19 Pandemic. iii. Adherence to the Public Procurement and Disposal Act, 2015 in the sourcing of COVID-19 related health protective teams (HPTs) and other items by the Ministry of Health and all agents charged with the fight against the pandemic. iv. Establish the donations received by the Government of Kenya from well-wishers towards the fight against the pandemic specifically donations received by the Ministry of Health. The Committee in this Report sets out to provide answers to the following pertaining issues regarding the utilisation of public funds in the fight against the pandemic. (i) The funds the Ministry of Health received from the Government of Kenya and development partners towards the fight against COVID-19 Pandemic. (ii) Whether the Ministry approved ministerial contingency plan and framework to guide utilisation of appropriated covid-19 related funds. (iii) How the Ministry implemented the contingency plan. (iv) How the Ministry of Health spent the funds appropriated to it towards the fight against Covid-19. (v) We also looked at the total amount of COVID-19 related procurement taken by the Ministry of Health and its SAGAS while undertaking procurement of COVID-19 related HPTs, and whether the Ministry of Health and its agencies complied and adhered to the Public Procurement Policies, Public Procurement and Disposal Act, 2015 and its attendant regulation. (vi) Also, to establish whether the Committee can verify the existent of all procured items by the Ministry and its agencies, status report of all donations received by the Government of Kenya from well-wishers towards the fight against the pandemic. (vii) Whether the Ministry had in place an approved operation framework of acquiring money and managing the donations. Hon. Speaker, we invited several people to appear before us. They are both agencies and business people who Hon. Kiarie was asking whether they were invited. We invited some of them to appear before the Committee. We also paid visits to some facilities in the counties because we also allocated money to the counties and also visited our own national facilities to see how they handled COVID-19 Pandemic. The amendment has also come, noting that we tabled this Motion on 1st October and so many things have happened. By the time we finished with this Report, COVID-19 was going down. Now, as we know, the spike has come back again hence the amendment of various issues that have also come up after we had already tabled the Report. The Committee observed the following: The National Assembly allocated Kshs23.4 billion to the Ministry towards COVID-19 response in 2019/2020. This allocation was 16.7 per cent of the total resources mobilised for COVID-19 estimated at around Kshs140 billion based on the National Treasury submission. The allocation to the Ministry of Health compromised Kshs16.7 billion from the Ex-Chequer and Kshs6.7 billion from development partners mainly the World Bank and the Royal Danish Embassy (Danida). The National Assembly passed regulations that established the National COVID-19 Fund. The National Treasury submitted as at August 2020, the Fund, and had established Kshs9.9 billion which had not been utilised by then. 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."
}