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    "speaker_name": "Funyula, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. (Dr.) Ojiambo Oundo",
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    "content": "the cadastral maps are there. Some of them already have Part Development Plan (PDP). Some are already included in the national development spatial plan. It is, therefore, a matter that can take a short period of time. There are ping-pong games. For example, we were told that the allotment letters got lost. Who told them that those are legal documents to confirm ownership of the title deed? They are not. The document to confirm ownership of the title deed is the title deed. Those are some of the issues that we need to address. Hon. Temporary speaker, those entities must be going concerns, as the law indicates from an accounting officer’s perspective. The Government did not set up those corporations to drain the Exchequer. They were supposed to be a profit centre but not a cost centre. We continuously say that those agencies are capable of running and getting their money to even contribute to the Exchequer through other means. What normally kills those organisations is poor governance and mismanagement. One of the issues that the Committee should focus on is the governance structures. Are they good enough to ensure that those Semi-Autonomous Government Agencies (SAGAs) are capable of running themselves sustainably? Therefore, I ask the Committee – as the oversight committee – to put the SAGAs in line to account for what they do. If they are found to be incapable or insolvent, the Committee should be bold enough to recommend for their dissolution so that they do other things. On the African Portland Cement, it was supposed to be a price stabiliser in the economy. However, during periods under review, they were in trouble. I sit it in the Departmental Committee on Trade, Industry and Co-operatives. They have made tremendous progress in making sure that they capitalise their business and make it grow. The Government and all those concerned should give them support to ensure that we have a price stabiliser in this economy. I have been told that, currently, cement costs Ksh900 per 50 kilogramme-bag. A few years back, it was being sold at Ksh450. You can tell that the exponential increase in price is going to jeopardise the so-called affordable housing program. It is no longer going to be affordable. So, we must ask..."
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