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    "id": 1459989,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Wajir County, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Fatuma Jehow",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker. I am a Member of the Public Investments Committee on Social Service, Administration and Agriculture, a watchdog committee that examines the Auditor-Generals reports to ensure effectiveness and efficiency in the use of public resources. I thank my Chairman and the Committee for working tirelessly to produce this Report. Before this 13th Parliament, PIC was just one committee. It is worrying that some of those Government institutions have never been audited. This is the first time we are auditing some of those State corporations. Some of them have not been audited for the many years they have existed. We came across more than 50 of them. Those corporations are funded by the Exchequer and yet, there is nothing to show whether they use the resources prudently or not. Hon. Temporary Speaker, your guess is as good as mine. We came across issues like delays in making documents available. When the auditors go to those State corporations, the accounting officers do not share proper documentation. In this case, we were told that the accounting officer did not give the reconciled financial and accounting records required under the PFM Act. They deliberately do this to cover their tracks. They do this so that they are not caught, not knowing that the money they use is taxpayers' money. On delayed appointments, when a State corporation does not have in place a board of directors for more than two years, how does that institution work? You wonder. It is probably the Permanent Secretary (PS) that runs that particular State corporation and because of that, there are so many vacancies that cannot be filled. It is my hope that this Report shall be implemented in the next three months as we have requested. Coming back to Kenya Medical Training College (KMTC) and Kenyatta University Teaching and Referral Hospital, we see chunks of land in those institutions that do not have ownership. People are just grabbing Government land. Even the previous Chief Executive Officers (CEOs) headed institutions that had issues with title deeds. Actually, they did not have The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for informationpurposes only. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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