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    "speaker_name": "Navakholo, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Emannuel Wangwe",
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    "content": "I would now like to go to the recommendations by the Committee on the way forward. The Committee had various general and specific recommendations. I want to read through the general recommendations before I take the House through the specific recommendations. 1. Within three months after tabling and adoption of this Report, the Cabinet Secretary and accounting officers of line ministries for State corporations established by an Act of Parliament or legal notice, which continue to operate as directorates within the said parent ministries or State departments, should take the necessary steps to accord them the semi-autonomy depicted in the establishing statutes. 2. Within three months after tabling and adoption of this Report, the Attorney- General and Cabinet Secretaries of line ministries for State corporations established by an Executive Order, which continue to operate as directorates within the said parent ministries or State departments, should initiate the necessary legal steps to develop a legal framework to accord them the semi- autonomy depicted in the Executive Order. 3. State corporations that rely on the national Exchequer for financial support should be funded through grants rather than budgetary line items. Further, upon tabling and adoption of this Report, State corporations that are not operationalised should be operationalised and granted their autonomy status. In addition, the Cabinet Secretary in charge, in consultation with the Attorney- General, should initiate the process of repealing the respective Acts of Parliament or relevant statutes establishing them, where it is felt that the statutes have been overtaken by events and are no longer applicable like in the case of the Animal Technicians Council. 4. Upon tabling and adoption of this Report, State corporations that are managed by their sister corporations should be granted semi-autonomous status. 5. Within three months after tabling and adoption of this Report, the Cabinet Secretary in charge, in consultation with the Attorney-General, should initiate the amendment process for State corporations established to offer services that conflict or are similar to those of sister corporations that are established by the same Act, or to merge them. I now want to take the House through the specific glaring observations for a few State corporations. I will begin with the Mathari National Teaching and Referral Hospital. The Committee observed that despite being established as a body corporate with an envisaged financial and administrative autonomy by Legal Notice No.165 of 2020 and the State Corporations Act, the hospital still operates as a Department in the Ministry of Health. The second observation that came out very glaringly was that the CEO, despite being appointed, does not account for the Appropriations-in-Aid. That is in contravention of Section 68 of the Public Finance Management Act of 2012 and Section 16 of Legal Notice No.165 of 2020. In addition to those two observations, we had a last one. We observed that the Principal Secretary who appeared before the Committee confirmed ceding the hospital to operate as a Semi-Autonomous Government Agency (SAGA) and allocating grants to the hospital in the current financial year. On appearing before us, the Principal Secretary confirmed going to implement the State corporation as established. Therefore, we have recommended− For Mathari National Teaching and Referral Hospital: 1. That Parliament reprimands the Cabinet Secretary of the Ministry of Health for failing to grant autonomy in the hospital’s operations and financial independence. 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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