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    "id": 1459969,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Wajir North, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Ibrahim Saney",
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    "content": "on their audited accounts. At this point, I do not know why such national institutions like KEMRI, Kenyatta University Referral Hospital and the Kenyatta National Hospital cannot up to now have title deeds in their names. That raises serious questions on the governance aspects too. That is why their audited accounts have issues. Valuation of their land is also a problem because they do not have title deeds. That is what affects their audited accounts. The boards of directors are not always in place at the right time. Of concern to me are issues touching on procurement. We still have procurement issues in all the organisations that the Report covers at this point when we have a pragmatic, very promising and progressive Constitution of 2010 that has put a high threshold on establishing the legal framework to manage procurement. Our Constitution has set standards that procurement practices must be competitive, fair, transparent and cost-effective. Any procurement law must be anchored there. It is very demotivating that Kenyatta National Hospital, KEMRI, Kenyatta University Referral Hospital and other institutions, cannot ensure to meet those constitutional requirements or threshold. There is pilferage of public funds. Of concern to me too is the fact that some CEOs are acting. This House has just approved the Director-General of Health, who has been on an acting capacity for some five years. Why should CEOs be in acting capacity for five years? That is what breeds corruption because CEOs are held hostage. They are not substantive holders of their offices. They will be rendered indecisive because they are not the substantive office holders. That cajoles or ‘kind of’ asks them to comply with some ungodly practices. That means corruption thrives in such institutions just because there are no substantive CEOs. Another concern is that such big national institutions have issues with the recovery of imprests. Even smaller institutions have policies on managing their imprests. It is a big concern that Kenyatta National Hospital – which is the national referral hospital - and KEMRI have issues to do with imprests. I believe time has come that the law must be followed to the letter. I am sure corruption is a big concern as we speak. The only way to do away with such practices is to make sure that everybody behaves ethically and knows it is criminal to use Government funds and not account for them. With those few concerns, I believe it is time to improve on the governance aspect of all those organisations. More so, such gigantic institutions should be the best to lead in accounting for taxpayers’ money. I support the Report. I wish those big institutions were the ones mentoring and leading the way for other institutions to follow. I support."
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