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    "id": 141955,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Were",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "David Aoko Were",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, for giving me this opportunity to contribute. First, I will say that I am a member of this Committee. I am very glad that, at last, this report was tabled and is being debated in the House despite hue and cry from other hon. Members and members outside Parliament who were fearing that maybe this Committee was not doing its work as required. I would like to commend the hon. Members of this Committee who meet tirelessly and have come up with this Report. Just to give you a brief, this Committee held 76 sittings and examined 104 Reports and took evidence from 25 corporations and visited three during that time. Out of these, six accounts were examined and are up to date. In our observations, we realized that most of these corporations have problems because they have improper book keeping. They have the tendency of irregularly awarding contracts. There are serious issues in terms of contract price variations. They have poor financial performance, imprudent management of finances or resources, misuse of assets, poor procurement procedures and procurement of unusable goods and also poor investment and investments in non core activities. We examined several corporations and I would want to pick only on a few corporations to show how most of these corporations are mismanaged. I would want to take the National Health Insurance Fund (NHIF) as an example and take the issue of the NHIF Headquarters. As has been stated before, this contract was awarded in 1997 and the contract was supposed to be for a figure of about Kshs1.5 billion. It was estimated to be completed in April 2001 but that was not to be. The contract price was revised three times from a figure of Kshs1.4 billion to Kshs3.3 billion which finally stood at about Kshs4.3 billion. There were strange reasons which were given for these kinds of variations. Some of the reasons were that the geology of the location was not as anticipated. There was price escalation of materials and contractual claims which were made by various contractors. They also said that because of the change of the status of the corporation, it was moved from the Ministry of Health and became a parastatal. That"
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