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    "id": 1124759,
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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Olekina",
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        "id": 407,
        "legal_name": "Ledama Olekina",
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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I cannot see what is written here. So, I will just summarise what is written there; and prosecute. We were given one month. I hope now, the DPP and DCI will come and get some material from this Report. It is a bit hypocritical for the KEMSA Board to now come and have a meeting with the Senate Committee on Health and say they were being held hostage by suppliers. You were being held hostage? This Committee that investigated this matter has recommended the DPP and DCI to then go and follow these companies and suppliers and find out what this “hostage” means. Why are you being held hostage? One thing which was a laughing matter is that, when we held a meeting with the new KEMSA board, when you listen to them you realize that they have no clue as to what is happening. In fact, their focus is on a Human Resource (HR) audit but not the truth. If you listen to them, you will end up concluding that the reason why these staff were sent home is so that the truth will never come out as to what happened last year that led to the issue of the COVID-19 billionaires. As I conclude, it is important that the House reviews the existing regulations to provide for an elaborate framework for the conduct by procuring entities, to emergency procurements and in particular, the implementation of Section 103 of Public Procurement and Asset Disposal Act, 2015 by procuring entities. This is a matter that now behooves us as Parliament and also the Ministry to be look at what is happening. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I have to say that I am a bit skeptical of the militarization of this country. The moment you bring in the military, you are actually saying goodbye to procurement laws because they will do whatever they want to do. Furthermore, it is the military. I believe the military of this country has done a very good job. I hope that instead of bringing in the military to take over KEMSA, we can prosecute those who caused companies--- I am sure there are innocent people who supplied to KEMSA but today, one of the things that pains me the most, is when you hear that KEMSA owes suppliers Kshs6.8 billion. KEMSA is also owed quite a lot of money by county governments. I want to request county governments that since we come here to fight for you to get money and the National Treasury releases the monies on time, please, pay KEMSA what you owe them. That way, at least, you can deliver drugs to Kilifi County in a month’s time, instead of the 616 days that you take to fill an order rate. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, with those few remarks, I beg to second."
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