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    "id": 1034861,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Turkana CWR, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. (Ms.) Joyce Emanikor",
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        "legal_name": "Joyce Akai Emanikor",
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    "content": " Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, at the outset, I wish to support the Report. Since I am a Member of the Committee, I will not go into the detailed recommendations because that has already been articulated by my Chairperson and Vice-Chairperson. When we were investigating the aspects of accountability, austerity and compliance of KEMSA with the Public Finance Management (PFM) Act and the Public Procurement and Asset Disposal Act, we realised that they failed that exam because they told us that they did the procurement using the reverse procurement method or the retrospective method where they just called suppliers to bring supplies to their stores without negotiating. That is why we found so many things in their warehouse. The other thing we checked is the timeliness of supplies because we are talking of life and death here. Again, on that, they failed because even the retrospective procurement which was meant for emergency did not realise that purpose. Finally, we were also looking at the protection of health workers. Again, that was an exam that KEMSA failed because if they would have supplied these things in time, we would have saved the life of our health workers. Given the looming strike, the high risk our health workers are exposed to and having lost over 32 health workers, 10 of whom were consultants of high repute and long-time training, coupled with the prevailing panic among the Kenyan public and the overstretching of both health facilities and staff, I urge this House to adopt this Report. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, distribution of PPEs to public facilities will help in the current fight against COVID-19. You may have seen Hon. (Dr.) Nyikal with his contagious tears during the Committee meeting. We did not cry because we were unable to act. We cried because 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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