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    "speaker_name": "Navakholo, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Emmanuel Wangwe",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker. At the outset, allow me to appreciate the Report by the Public Investments Committee on Governance and Education. I as well appreciate my colleague, the Hon. Member for Bumula, the Chairperson, for delivering such a strong Report on the Floor of the House. I also want to compliment the Committee for being the first Public Investments Committee to lay a Report on the Floor of the House especially during this 13th Parliament. I will emphasise on a few issues which basically touch on lawfulness and effectiveness on how the Report has been delivered. Deep inside this Report, there are two or three issues which caught my eye. On the issue of lack of staff or staff establishment, why would an organisation say that it does not have staff? Staff are crucial in the delivery of what is lawful to that organisation. Let me single out the Kenya National Innovation Agency. This Report says that the Agency has shortage of staff. What kind of innovation shall we be looking forward to seeing from this organisation when it is not up to standard to deliver its own mandate? Hon. Temporary Speaker, this is just but a simple way of how organisations withhold executing their mandate. Instead they want to buy time by suggesting that they do not have the requisite staff establishment. So, they are unable to deliver on their mandate on time when they are called upon to do so. I appreciate and thank the Committee for singling out such corporations. The problem cuts across. Whatever report you look at, it talks about shortage of staff and movement of staff from a ministry to an agency on secondment. The seconded staff assume two roles yet Kenyans are in search of jobs. Why should somebody be seconded from a ministry to a corporation? Why can he not go back and do his original duty? Secondment kills job opportunities for our youth. We need to stand and stamp our authority and stop secondment. Hon. Temporary Speaker, in this Report, the Committee has brought out issues of budgetary control and performance. How can an organisation not do simple accounting of matching purchase orders and payment vouchers? Anyone who has been in an accounting class should be able to match purchase orders to payment vouchers. How about a whole State corporation headed by a chief executive officer where an auditor is unable to match a purchase order to a payment voucher? This is shameful. We must call this organisation to order. In this Report, the organisation that we are talking about is a serious one and as a pioneer institution, it should lead by example. The University of Nairobi Enterprises and Services Limited’s books of accounts have not been matched. The books of accounts were being drawn manually. What a shame! It is a unit in a pioneer institution, the University of Nairobi. The University of Nairobi is a pioneer in the teaching of the Bachelor of Commerce, famously known as B Com. The Committee has also identified cross-cutting issues in various departments that have to do with the Public Procurement and Assets Disposal Act of 2015. There is an organisation that has been pointed out in this Report that had no reports when they were asked for. We all know that Hon. Sakaja, in this Parliament, moved a Bill which we are all proud of and was passed and now is the Public Procurement and Assets Disposal Act of 2015 that prescribes that 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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