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    "id": 1078759,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Uriri, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Mark Nyamita",
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        "legal_name": "Mark Ogolla Nyamita",
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    "content": " Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, one of the other issues is that there are many state-owned enterprises within the Ministry that are getting to moribund status. One of them is the Postal Corporation of Kenya. Within the Supplementary Budget II, due to COVID-19 and other issues, this particular House approved an additional Ksh810 million for Postal Corporation of Kenya to help them pay for salaries. However, the total amount that the Postal Corporation of Kenya still owes, including to Government, is well up to about Ksh4 billion. So, we need to, as a Government, decide what is the rightful way that we are going to go so that we ensure that some of the state-owned enterprises that are no longer trading or are no longer viable can be restructured so that we get true value for taxpayers’ money. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, one of the things that is affecting the State corporations under this particular Ministry, and I will start with the Postal Corporation of Kenya, when the Government started putting up Huduma Centres a number of Huduma Centres are in post offices across the country. To date, Huduma Centre which is domiciled under the Ministry of Interior and Coordination of National Government, owes the Postal Corporation of Kenya in excess of Ksh1.2 billion. We have pushed and we hope that this House can help us, we have agreed together with the National Treasury that within the Budget for the Ministry of Interior and Coordination of National Government, the said amount of Ksh1.2 billion can be directly deducted at source and be remitted to Postal Corporation of Kenya so that they can get back to business. The same applies to Kenya Broadcasting Corporation (KBC). During this pandemic, KBC received instruction from the Communications Authority of Kenya (CAK) to air educational content for free. There is nothing for free. They have to pay for the signals, electricity and the 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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