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    "id": 1124742,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Olekina",
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        "legal_name": "Ledama Olekina",
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    "content": "a) Article 226 of the Constitution read together with Section 44(2) of the Public Procurement Assets and Disposal Act (PPADA), Section 44, 45 (3) (d) of the PPADA and Sections 48 and 53. It is very clear that the actors are DDP and DCI. The timeline was one month. Who is responsible because we do not have an Implementation Committee? It is the Committee on Health. We adopted this report in March. Now at the end of the year, KEMSA is threatening to fire all its 922 employees because they have come up with new things. They are saying, “we have a bloated work force and yet we are supposed to have only 383 employees as per SCAC guidelines”. They want to fire them all instead of looking at the rot. One of the funny things we heard the other day when we were meeting with KEMSA Board was that for a hospital in Kwale to order drugs from Kwale, the delivery period is over 616 days, which is almost two years. I do not know whether they will be walking because If I walked from Nairobi to Kwale, the maximum it would take me is a month. I do not know whether they will be going at snail’s pace to deliver this medicine and whether it will even work. I think we are jokers in this country. We have a crisis. As Senate, we spent taxpayers’ money to come up with these recommendations. We went for a retreat in Mombasa where we drafted these recommendations. We sat here and exchanged bitter words with KEMSA Board and the Ministry because of the rot there. All we were trying to do was to find out the truth because we swore to defend the Constitution. Instead of the DPP and DCI saying, “so long as the report has been tabled, even if it has not been adopted, let us move fast.” They just dillydally. To add insult to injury, the President comes in and gives them 21 days and says, “make sure everyone who is responsible is held accountable.” Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, the goal posts have shifted. I wonder whether this report will be meaningful now that the mandate has changed. It is no longer following all those who robbed this country of billions of shillings and caused the huge scandal. It is now simply sending all employees home. Meanwhile we have dead stock bought for billions of Kenya Shillings of products which were bought that can never be sold. A mask that now costs about Kshs30 was at that time being sold for Kshs900. It is there. What did we hear when we were going through these investigations? They said they were being held hostage by the suppliers. Give me a break! How does a supplier hold you hostage? It is lack of accountability that led to this."
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