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    "id": 1378718,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Navakholo, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Emmanuel Wangwe",
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    "content": "The Committee noted with concern that all the corporations listed below, and which I would want to read, failed to prepare and submit financial statements to the Auditor- General for audit: 1. Clinical Officers Council; 2. Counsellors and Psychologists Board; 3. Physiotherapists Council of Kenya; 4. Public Health Officers and Technicians Council; 5. Kenya Health Human Resource Advisory Council; 6. Kenya Health Professionals Oversight Authority; 7. Tobacco Control Board; 8. Kenya Nutritionists and Dieticians Institute; 9. Kenya Consumers Protection Advisory Committee; 10. Estate Agency Registration Board; 11. Kenya Fish Marketing Authority; 12. Kenya Fishing Industry Co-operation; 13. Valuers Registration Board; 14. National Heroes Council; 15. Animal Technicians Council; 16. Health Records and Information Managers Board; 17. Kenya National Commission on Culture and Social Services; 18. Refugees Appeal Board; 19. Universal Services Fund Advisory Council; 20. Media Complaints Commission; 21. Mathari National Teaching and Referral Hospital; 22. Agriculture Information Resource Centre; and, 23. Kenya Sports Authority. Hon. Temporary Speaker, the above are the parastatals that failed to comply with the relevant regulations, laws and the Constitution of Kenya. Thirdly, there was failure to prepare and submit statements for unspent money repaid into the national Exchequer account. This is a requirement that you need to prepare and submit a statement of unspent money. You do not just draw funds from the Exchequer and keep change. This is not somebody's pocket money. That was happening with those organisations and that is why we put them under that category. The next issue that we picked was the failure by the parent ministries to operationalise the State corporations. Those are corporations born out of existing ministries. Just as it is cultural that a parent settles his sons or daughters wherever they are, it is their responsibility to operationalise those corporations. The parent ministries failed to operationalise the State corporations. We have recommended that the relevant cabinet secretaries be reprimanded for failing on their duties to help the young corporations take off. The other issue is on State corporations established through Executive Orders, but lack clear mandate. We noted that whereas the Executive Orders established some of them, they did not have very clear mandate in terms of their role and what they are supposed to do. For instance, the Cabinet Secretary for the Ministry of Mining, the Blue Economy and Maritime Affairs failed to operationalise the Kenya Fish Marketing Authority and the Kenya Fishing Industries Corporation. However, the Fisheries Management and Development Act, 2016 that established the Kenya Fish Marketing Authority was declared invalid for want of public participation by the court in a judgment delivered on 15th November 2022. Despite the claims of stay order, the Authority did not avail before the Committee any court evidence or ruling of stay of the said judgement. This was part of the observations that we picked. 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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