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    "speaker_name": "Navakholo, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Emmanuel Wangwe",
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    "content": "Matters pending in court were also cutting across the various agencies. The Committee observed that a number of litigations concerning land ownership, state corporations, and other legal matters have been pending before the courts for a long period, despite the resolutions of the House through previous Public Investment Committee reports. All those five state agencies have matters in Court dating back to 2008 to date, which have not been resolved. As a Committee, we felt in our recommendation that the Inspector-General of State Corporations should carry out a review of all entities with pending court cases, prepare a comprehensive status report, and submit it to the National Assembly, with a copy to the Attorney-General, who will initiate the process of fast-tracking the conclusion of the cases within a reasonable time. We also noted cross-cutting issues on the delay in the accountability of imprest. The Committee noted that some State corporations were in breach of Section 71 of the PFM Act 2012 and in their attendant regulations, which require the rendering of imprest within seven days upon the conclusion of the assignment for which the said imprest was issued. We noted that most of those agencies take more than seven days – even some take two years and some even take four years - without surrendering the imprest. Therefore, where the said agency has not surrendered the imprest, the Committee recommended that the accounting officer must ensure the imprest advanced to officers is surrendered within the stipulated period. Two, that within six months of the adoption of this Report, the accounting officers who fail to take the necessary steps to ensure that all the outstanding imprests within their jurisdiction are recovered by the due date, should be surcharged the full amount due. The onus of collecting the imprest lies with the accounting officer. If they fail to recover the imprest, they should be surcharged. Hon. Speaker, allow me now to look at the specific issues that affected specific institutions. Kenyatta National Hospital had issues with unconfirmed borrowing balances. This issue was addressed as contained in the 24th PIC Report. However, the National Treasury and the KNH were yet to reconcile, despite the fact that it had been captured in the 24th Report, and come up with a true figure of the loan status. It had taken a loan taken in 2006 to have the subsidiary grant agreement converted from an on-lend loan to an on-grant loan, which was fully signed on 4th August 2022. However, the Board's approval for passing the necessary book entries to correct the anomaly in the financial statements was granted in September 2022. There was also the issue of land under property plan and equipment. There is a parcel of land at Kenyatta National Hospital that was excised off the main land of KNH. The Committee observed that the plots were irregularly excised and allocated to third parties in previous years. The matter was discussed in the 19th PIC Report, but the NLC was yet to make the recommendations."
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