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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Wajir West, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Yussuf Farah",
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    "content": " Thank you for giving me this opportunity to support the Report by the Public Investments Committee. From the onset, the Public Investments Committee has done a thorough investigative Report and clearly shown that we have many problems in State corporations in this country. I am privileged to sit in the Public Investments Committee on Commercial Affairs and Energy. However, it seems whatever is being said in this Report is exactly what is happening in every State department in this country. We are facing similar challenges in each State corporation: be it land ownership, delays of appointment of boards, and irregular procurement processes. It is as if we are duplicating the same problem in every department. I echo the sentiments of my colleague here that those State corporations do not take this House seriously. That is because the reports that are tabled here are not implemented. The problem is that we have no teeth to implement these reports. The reports are brought, tabled, discussed and passed. Unfortunately, they die off. Anybody in a department or State corporation knows they will not implement whatever any committee or Parliament recommends. The trend continues year-in, year-out. It is my hope and prayer that Parliament will one day and time devise a mechanism to implement its reports, so that anybody who violates the law should be brought to book. I support the Report. Delays in appointment of boards of directors is one key recommendation of the Committee. Boards of directors in each institution have their mandates and rules. If not appointed, an institution can make decisions that will eventually lead to misappropriation of resources and violation of the law. The Committee has also highlighted irregular procurement processes. Sometimes, we blame CEOs and accounting officers for doing irregular procurement processes. However, I also believe that this House has a mandate to aid CEOs to perform irregular procurement processes. Why do I say so? We pass budgets that are not based on projects, but on the whims, directions and instructions of the Executive. Let us come to the Budget that was tabled just recently. You will realise that we have many ongoing projects. However, the Executive has removed all ongoing projects from the Budget and allocated funds to funny expenditures. I am 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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