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    "id": 1276761,
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    "speaker_name": "Tinderet, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Julius Melly",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Speaker. I want to join other Members in welcoming the students to the House to witness the proceedings. I know this is part of learning History and Government. As the Chairperson of the Departmental Committee on Education and Research, I commend the schools' management, students, and teachers for taking time to come and see how Parliament works. I commend the Chairperson of the PIC-GE and the 12th Parliament for their wisdom in splitting the original PIC into three committees. In the last Parliament, it took a lot of work for this House to oversee several government agencies because of the volume of work. Hon. Speaker, I commend you and the leadership of the House for creating the PIC- GE. I commend the Chairperson of the Committee on the issues he has raised. Several government institutions or parastatals do not follow the PFM Act. As the Whip of the Majority Party has put it, that is not in order. This government does not support ineptitude or officers who do not follow government procedures. His Excellency, the President wants a government that delivers and holds officers to account. For instance, the KNEC building was started in 1986. Most Members of Parliament here were not yet born then, but to this day, the building is not complete. This speaks to corruption and ineptitude. All CEOs who have served KNEC have not been able to complete it. We want to hold those officers accountable. We allocate them funds, but they have to give timelines for completing those structures. The State Department for Public Works is a government agency that has been going to bed with many of those officers. Every building is expected to cost Ksh500 million; the cost is varied between Ksh3 billion and Ksh4 billion. This is a big problem at KICD, KNEC, and public universities. We allocate resources. We want value for those resources. If I may pick up a case at Moi University, there is a building called \"Science Complex\" that was started in the 1990s, but to date, it is not complete. It has cost the taxpayer over Ksh200 million, yet there is nothing to show. I ask the Chairperson to move quickly to ensure that the mwananchi who voted and is paying taxes smiles all the way to the public institutions saying, “Surely, this is the government that I voted for.” This should happen when an officer fails to submit documents to show how he used the funds and whether he complies with ethnicity and gender balance requirements. This is one country, one nation, and one people. The people are supposed to be employed across the board. 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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