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"content": "title deeds. Despite the Public Investment Committee (PIC) writing to them, there were no clear indications that the CEOs tried to get the title deeds for the institutions. If I come back to KMTC, they have many branches even in the counties. The Wajir KMTC, which was supported by the county government of Wajir in the year 2013 to 2017, has no perimeter wall. You can understand the community that surrounds the institution and what can happen to it if it does not have a title deed. Look at the Kenyatta University Teaching and Referral Hospital. They have a big chunk of land, but they have no title deed. You know where it is situated and the community that surrounds it. So, it is vital that we take this matter seriously and ensure that the institution gets a title deed. Another issue that we have come across is officers not surrendering imprest. I will give an example of the Kenya Medical Research Institute (KEMRI). When we wrote this Report, it was five years from the time the concerned officers took the money. Mark you, it is taxpayers' money. Five years down the line, the officers from KEMRI have not accounted for the imprest. Where on earth do you see that? Even Members of Parliament, the first thing you do when you come from an activity outside the country is to surrender your imprest. It is high time we looked at this institution seriously. They must account for each penny that they take because it is taxpayers' money. We have detected an irregular procurement process, which is contrary to the provisions of the Public Procurement and Asset Disposal Act, 2015. What do you see here, Hon. Temporary Speaker? Delay in completion of contract. You award someone a contract and he takes his sweetest time to complete the contract. You find someone inflating the cost of the contract from the time he signed the contract to the time he completes it. We are dealing with institutions that are not serious and they do not want to take care of taxpayers' money. We have a new clique that is the Gen. Zs who are telling us to account for every penny we take. We saw the other day the President abolishing more than 40 institutions. It is high time we had a hard conversation with some of those institutions. If they cannot account for the taxpayers' money, we should abolish them. So, I ask this House and the Implementation Committee to take this Report seriously and to give us feedback in the next three months. Hopefully, we can move forward. Thank you."
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