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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kericho County, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Beatrice Kemei",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker, for giving me this opportunity to add my voice on this very important Report on consideration of the audited accounts of specified State corporations which, in this case, we have five of them. I really want to thank the Chairman and the Members of the Public Investment Committee (PIC) for this very detailed Report. When I listened, I realised that the Committee had done wonderful work. The work of ensuring compliance is not very easy. Looking at the years which they actually audited, we are talking of a period of over 10 years! I even went to the extent of conversing with the Chairman to find out if it was a mistake. That KEMRI was audited only for the year 2012/2013 and 2013/ 2014. Those are very many years ago! It is not very easy to get information or records for all those years. So, I must commend the Chairman and the Members of this very important committee. Looking at the Report, I realise that we have so many issues concerning our corporations, especially the issue of land ownership that is so emotive. It is not only affecting those institutions, but very many others. So, this one is one of them. It is very unfair and sad to have Government institutions sitting on land that does not have title deeds. This is the reason we have land grabbing. People who have brains and time can go and look for such pieces of land with the intention to grab them. They can go to the Ministry of Lands and look at the land that has no title. That is where land grabbing comes in. I am also much concerned that we can put up large and expensive buildings on pieces of land that 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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