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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kikuyu, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Kimani Ichung’wah",
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    "content": "Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker, for adding me one minute. As I was saying, the directive by the President has another one-and-a-half month to go. The National Treasury must also, in line with the directive by the President, ensure that e- procurement becomes a reality at the end of this first quarter. By the time the National Treasury brings its annual estimates on 29th or 30th April, it must report to the House whether it has made the e-procurement a reality. By 31st May, it must report on the automation of IFMIS, the debt management system and TSA. The funds held by MDAs have become an avenue for corruption. You find bank managers queuing in state departments and parastatals because many of them hold huge amounts of money in bank accounts earning small interest. Then, the same money is given to the Government in terms of domestic public debt. There is no reason why the Government should be borrowing its own money. We must ensure that the TSA becomes a reality so, that even when we borrow money, we are not borrowing our own money. There is no reason why an MDA should bank in a commercial bank and earn interest of 4 or 5 per cent and then we go back as the Government and borrow the same money from the market from 11 to12 per cent. It is not right and we must ensure this does not happen. I hope the Cabinet Secretary of the National Treasury and Economic Planning, Hon. John Mbadi, who is a former member of the Budget and Appropriations Committee and the Principal Secretary Kiptoo are listening to me. They must actualise the TSA. The automation that this House has recommended in this policy resolution must not be a talk, but must be actualised. May I remind them what the President directed during the State of the Nation Address that by the end of the first quarter, we expect to see e-procurement in place. I beg to support."
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