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    "id": 231579,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/231579/?format=api",
    "text_counter": 326,
    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Angwenyi",
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        "legal_name": "Jimmy Nuru Ondieki Angwenyi",
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    "content": "Thank you for that information. I knew it all and I am aware of what he has said here. But, Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, is it not true today that there are pending bills to the tune of Kshs13 billion? We do not know how those bills arose. Is that not true today? I served in the Departmental Committee on Energy, Communications and Public Works and I know that a bulk of those bills belong to that department. Is it not true that the auditing of Kisii Municipal Council, Gusii and Nyamira county councils, and even Nairobi City Council is five years in arrears? Is there anybody who can contest that fact? Those are facts, and you cannot avoid them by diving around! We spend Kshs11 billion on LATF, but is it accounted for? You know, of course, that since it is not given to any hon. Member, the Media will always focus on hon. Members and they do not want to question the utilization of that Fund. Why can we not build malls for those hawkers that we keep on chasing from the streets of Nairobi? Why can we not build malls using the Local Authorities Transfer Fund (LATF) money amounting to Kshs11 billion? Why can we not do it within this financial year, so that we can clear all these hawkers from the streets of Nairobi? We, as Kenyans, should give them a decent place to work in. Why can we not drive on a smooth road in Eastleigh Estate? It is because we have never audited these accounts. Whenever they get audited and we make recommendations, no action is taken. I am really annoyed that I am part of this House; a House that makes recommendations December 5, 2006 PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES 4147 which cannot be implemented. Some of us are demonstrating on the streets of Nairobi, because of the replacement of Mr. Kenyatta by Mr. Biwott as the KANU Chairman. Why can we not demonstrate about the misappropriation of Kshs20 billion that belongs to Kenyans? Why can we not demonstrate because somebody who comes from Moyale cannot get there because of bad roads? Maybe we should begin to fight so that we get these rights of Kenyans implemented. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, look at the defunct state corporations on which the Government has guaranteed loans to the tune of Kshs5.6 billion. Examples are the Kenya National Trading Corporation (KNTC), Kenya Railways Corporation and Industrial Credit Development Corporation (ICDC). These parastatals defaulted to repay these loans. As a result, the Government took away taxpayers' money and paid up. However, it has never recovered money from those defunct corporations. Another example is the Kenya National Assurance which went under. I understand that the people who took it under are the ones quantifying themselves on the streets of Nairobi, that they are fighting corruption. It hurts me as a Kenyan. It hurts me more as a Member of this House! Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, this House must rise up and form a committee on assurance and implementation of its own recommendations. It must make sure that if the Attorney- General and the Ministry of Finance do not implement those recommendations, they will be charged with serious offences and imprisoned. This is what has happened in Hong Kong and Singapore. I am praying that my \"cousin\" colleague seated here goes back to the Treasury, because he was listening to us when he was there. Maybe if he was there, he could hear my cry today. I am sure that God will hear the voice of the voiceless."
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