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    "id": 1446026,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1446026/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Maanzo",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 13589,
        "legal_name": "Maanzo Daniel Kitonga",
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    "content": "The recommendation by Senate is to strengthen institutions through legal amendments and also by hiring people with integrity to ensure that when they implement their duty, even when the law has issues, they do it precisely. When you look at the import of cancelling a tender of this nature, it means there is the likelihood of patients being in hospital without proper nets. The funding agency decides the reason we are funding this particular prevention of a disease is to save lives. Therefore, it takes measures to intervene and decides to ignore the Government institutions; the Ministry of Health, the National Treasury, the Kenya Medical Suppliers Authority (KEMSA), and goes on to their portal to procure and makes sure these nets are available. They give them to KEMSA and tells them, please, rush them to the Kenyatta Hospital to make sure that no one contracts malaria. This has happened repeatedly in many other scenarios in the country where procurement, although we have a law, is weakened by individuals without integrity in Government offices. These are people we have given a job to take care of our resources and lives of Kenyans but end up politicizing the whole issue and making sure that nothing happens eventually. For that matter, we want to support the recommendations of this House. This House has done its level best in every aspect to make sure that devolution works, that devolved functions such as health work and people are accountable. Accountability has been a big failure in our times. That is why you are finding there is expectation from the youths of this country, from citizens of Kenya, that there should be accountability with the people we put into office. One of the recommendations, which came in this, was that whoever is the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of an institution must not act for too long. Acting CEOs do not have full responsibility for what they are supposed to do, and may not fully account. Therefore, one of the recommendations which the Senate made was that no one should act for too long. In this country, we have a history of people acting for two years. We had one case where somebody acted for seven years. You act beyond your contract, it is renewed and you are still acting. One of the recommendations is that the longest that people should ever act is between one month and six months. These are the recommendations that Senators came up with. Somebody may resign from office, may pass on in office or their contracts may come to an end. The Public Service Commission should make sure that interviews are done and somebody of integrity is picked to deal with an institution like that. Recently, KEMSA interviews were done, and the person who led those interviews, Dr. Mulwa, was not appointed contrary to the expectation of many people who thought he was doing a good job while acting as the CEO of KEMSA. He is a qualified doctor, he was one time a CECM of Makueni County, and was now working with the Minister of Health when he was asked to act. He was doing his level best to streamline KEMSA but now, he has not been appointed. There was all manner of rumours about why you were number one and you were not picked. You should be given justification why you have not been picked, yet you are the one who led in the interview and you are the most qualified. Why would somebody The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Director, Hansard and AudioServices, Senate."
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