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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kaiti, WDM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Joshua Kimilu",
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    "content": "years. When we travel as Members of Parliament, we have to surrender immediately we land back in the country. It is not funny to get an institution that has not surrendered its imprests for the last five years. I term that as corruption of the highest level. It is high time we came together as a country and made sure that we seal all those loopholes of corruption in our country. There is another challenge – and we have to look at this one from all the angles – where you find a CEO of an institution is acting in that capacity for more than six months. This is a weaknes and a loophole for corruption. If a CEO is working in an institution and he acts for one year, how do we expect him to perform or to give good work? This has become a problem in our country and it has been recommended in the Report. Corruption in governance has become a challenge in this country. If a committee like ours tables a Report like this one, we request that such a Report be implemented within three months. This is so that it can act as an example to other institutions because we do not want corruption and poor governance to continue in our country. There are good people with good papers; there are good Kenyans who can do a good job in that institution. They can deliver and do clean work in that institution, instead of keeping people who do shoddy work in the country and give bad results. Other organisations have stayed for several years without title deeds. This is one of the weaknesses that we have found in this institution. You can get an institution staying for more than 10 years without a title deed. If the Government can spend more than Ksh100 million on a project where there is no title deed or good papers, it is high time we termed this as corruption. We need to have clear papers. The Ministry of Lands told us that one of the institutions has been following their title deeds for more than three years, which should not be the case because that is a Government-to-Government exercise. I do not see how an organisation can follow a title deed for more than three years. Some of the institutions we are talking about are TVETs. It is unfortunate to see a title deed taking that long to be found. We allocate Government money to those institutions. It is not good. Let the Government make sure that the law is followed by all institutions to make sure that they get their title deeds. It is unfortunate that some officers in those institutions do not even give reports. It is like they are not qualified. We can say there is corruption in some of those institutions in the hiring of some of the staff. There is a lot of corruption and a big loophole. That is why we get people who cannot even prepare good documentation. We have a problem with such institutions because if we request for a document, we do not get what we want. This is a result of poor hiring of staff. Let this Report be implemented in three months. This will help this country. And let CEOs not take more than three months before they are confirmed. There is no need for a CEO, who is running a big institution, to act for more than three months. That creates a big loophole. It is also causing some of the problems with those organisations. I thank the Committee, which I am a part of, for the good job it did. I support the Report. This is the way to go. When a report is tabled in Parliament, we want to see it being implemented immediately so that we can seal the loopholes of corruption in this country. I support, Hon. Temporary Speaker."
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