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    "id": 1570683,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mandera County, UDM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Umul Kheir Kassim",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Deputy Speaker. I would like to second the Report of the audited accounts of the State Corporations which are Kenyatta National Hospital, Kenya Medical Supplies Authority (KEMSA), Kenya Veterinary Board, National Authority for the Campaign Against Alcohol and Drug Abuse (NACADA) and KBC. I will speak about five cross-cutting issues that came up while we were deliberating on the Report. One is on land. We found out that the land on which these State corporations sit on have no title deeds. They have active court cases, despite this House debating the issue in its previous terms. The tussles are on private developers and encroachment. The other cross- cutting issue is delay in availing documents to the Auditor-General. The State corporations delay in submitting documents to the office of the Auditor-General, contrary to the requirements of the Public Finance Management (PFM) Act, which requires the same within three months. The other cross-cutting issue is delay in accountability of imprest, which is contrary to the requirements of the PFM Act that requires seven days, as my Chairperson put it. The fourth cross-cutting issue is delay in appointment of directors of the boards. This contributes to poor decision making, poor governance and lack of policy guidance in the organisation. We found out that there is laxity in most of these issues. These are things that they can solve easily, but they decide to carry them on from one chief executive officer to the other. The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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