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    "speaker_name": "Navakholo, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Emmanuel Wangwe",
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    "content": "stocking of expired drugs. The accounting officer should know when to procure drugs and their shelf life. Within three months of the adoption of our Report, the Auditor-General should conduct a compliance audit on the procurement of drugs, stocking accountability, and destruction of expired drugs by KEMSA for a period of five years, from the 2017/2018 Financial Year to the 2021/2022 Financial Year. Within three months of the adoption of this Report, the management should submit to the National Assembly a copy of the documented strategies that have been approved by the Board and the Principal Secretary in the State Department for Medical Services. What also emerged from the inquiry was the issue of Board expenses. The response by KEMSA was too general, as it failed to address the specific audit query raised regarding the Ksh1.6 million paid in sitting and lunch allowances to four board members, which was not supported by invitation letters or minutes of meetings held. KEMSA has continued to experience serious governance issues arising from a deliberate lack of substantive office holders, as indicated. KEMSA has not had a substantive board chairperson since 9th October 2015, following the expiry of the second term of the then Chairman. Now that they went ahead and spent money on Board expenses, we recommend that the Committee reprimands the then Cabinet Secretary for failing to bring to the attention of the appointing authority the vacancies of the board chairperson and the chief executive officer (CEO). There was no board chairperson or CEO within that period. The Committee recommends that, within three months upon adoption of this Report, the Principal Secretary for the Ministry of Health, in collaboration with the Inspector-General of the State Corporations, should ensure that the then Accounting Officer who authorized the payment of the sitting and lunch allowance of Ksh1, 669,999 to the four board members, which were not supported by invitation letters and minutes of sitting, is surcharged for the amount paid. There was also the issue of land that we observed in KEMSA. The Committee observed that the Agency had taken time to register the title deeds despite having the necessary documentation in place. The situation has not changed seven years down the line. The Committee was concerned that KEMSA had engaged M/s Priority Management Limited as conveyancing experts through M/s KTK Advocates to handle the issue in the Financial Year 2012/2013 but, so far, they had nothing positive to show with regard to land ownership documentation. KEMSA had engaged professional services but, as at the date of the audit, there was nothing and yet, those professional services had been paid for. The lawyers contracted to register the leases and title deeds of lands belonging to KEMSA, as per the 22nd Public Investments Committee (PIC) Report, had been paid approximately Ksh2,000,000 then for the titles registered. However, the total payments to date could not be established, and the consultants or lawyers could have continued to draw money from KEMSA with no corresponding services rendered."
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