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"content": "Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I have a copy of the contract between the consultant and the Minister. In it, the Government is going to spend not just the US$1.3 million fees but also another US$1 million for reimbursement. However, the main concern we have is that when the Controller and Auditor-General tabled his Report on the 18 contracts, he said very clearly that the nature of the subject matter of this Report precludes the publication of the detailed audit reports of the contracts. In other words, they are so confidential that unless the President clears them, even the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) could not be availed some of the documents relating to those contracts. Here we are engaging a private audit firm to, among other things, determine the engineering designs of the specific projects relating to technical work. This is a company that does not have the capacity to deal with engineering matters. More importantly, in the contract, the consultants are required to do forensic investigation to determine if criminal activity had taken place. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, if the PAC Report has been thrown into the dustbin, the Kenya Anti-Corruption Commission (KACC) is not able to determine criminal activities. The Attorney- General's office is also unable to do that. How does an audit firm, which looks at figures, do that? My main question is: Under what circumstances did the Ministry procure the services of this consultancy firm through single-sourcing? Could the Minister explain that?"
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