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    "id": 1277845,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Busia County, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Catherine Omanyo",
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    "content": "Before I sit down, there are more observations that we made. We realised that there were many similar Funds with the same vision, mission and facing the same challenges. There is a duplicate of the strategies that have failed. They are being repeated. The accounting officers seem to be overwhelmed. Many of the institutions that have audit queries lack enough staff. You will find the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) performing the roles of the driver, secretary and helping the accountant whenever they come before us in the Committee. When we asked who the accountant was, they said they did not have enough staff which was quite unfortunate. We also realised that there is a long, archaic and neanderthal bureaucracy, looking at our age in Kenya. You have to go through a long process for anything to happen. This makes some of the public resources go to waste because there are too many stages that the person taking over any office has to undergo for him to save a situation. An example are Government vehicles. If you look at the time some of them were taken to the garage... If somebody steps in for a week, he can salvage them. It can take between six months to one year or forever before they are taken to the garage. Nobody seems to care and other newer vehicles are bought. The older ones are forgotten. It is staggering to see that our public resources are misused in that manner. We also audited some of the Funds that were created but they do not have proper structures. They exist but they are not in an Act of Parliament. They are not well known but they receive funds from the public coffers. We questioned the officers on how they found themselves there. They told us that they were given an office to manage a little kitty that had been in existence for the last 10 years, yet it is not well defined in our Constitution. There is a lot of duplication of roles. You find too many officers with big titles and duplicated roles in their portfolios. As a Special Fund, we wonder why we should have a Director, CEO, another title that is closer to the CEO and other titles. Everybody is big in that institution. There is a lot of nepotism because the person who was there ensured that he created a vacancy for a friend or relative which is quite unfortunate. We are here to protect taxpayers and make sure that every shilling that they give is well orchestrated and used. I second the Motion. I thank you."
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