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    "content": "prosecuted despite the directive given by the President? I think 21 days are long overdue and I know there is pressure from the USAID. You remember when there were problems with KEMSA, the USAID refused to continue funding KEMSA until institutional reforms were done. No one has done institutional reforms up to now. Do you want to tell me that they will lie to those donors that donate through KEMSA and USAID about the sacking of those 900 employees? Are they going to tell the donors that they have fired 900 employees because they were participating in corruption within KEMSA? I think we are lying to the country. We need to be honest with ourselves that 21 days is long overdue. We want to challenge the investigating agencies, the DCI, DPP and EACC that they need to prosecute the COVID-19 heist millionaires. The third point that I wanted to make is that there is always the State Corporation Advisory Committee who should be consulted if you want to do reforms within a particular sector. What are their recommendations about KEMSA? As the Senate, we should care about KEMSA. It is the only authority that has monopoly of procuring drugs. The moment you touch KEMSA, you touch Kisumu, Nandi, Isiolo and many other counties. Where will they continue getting drugs? Why are you taking in the National Youth Service (NYS)? Madam Temporary Speaker, I am sorry to say this; why is there systematic military change over in this country? The other day you saw the Kenya Meat Commission (KMC) was being taken over by the Kenya Defense Forces (KDF), you saw Nairobi Metropolitan Services (NMS) being run by individuals from KDF. Are they trying to give KEMSA to KDF because we are seeing NYS? Why is the NYS going inside the KEMSA yet they do not have expertise of procuring drugs? It should go on record that we will not allow that. Let us not allow that direction. I support and insist that anybody who was found implicated in the issue of corruption within KEMSA must be prosecuted. We cannot allow that. I thank you."
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