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"content": "Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I need your protection from Mr. Wetangula and my neighbour, Dr. Machage. Since the project had not been handed over to the client, the contractor was still on site. This is another scam. Do you know what was happening? These guys would just sit somewhere, ride an old wheelbarrow, keep it on site and say, \"we have not handed over the project, therefore, we shall continue demanding damages\". This happened to the extent that the machines are out there, the contractor is busy making some blood-money elsewhere and the wheelbarrow on site is earning him more money from the same Government. They say they have not handed over the project because they have a wheelbarrow, without a wheel, on site. That is how amazing these things are. It is important that listen to our voice of reason, and know where we stand as a country, if are to move forward. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, the building had not been put into any use by the Government for obvious reasons. As Moses says, there is no Kenya Revenue Authority (KRA) official who is like Jesus and can walk on water. There was no jetty. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, the Committee recommended that the Accounting Officer should ensure that the buildings is put into use by 30th June, 2006. This, again, is 3996 PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES November 28, 2006 postmortem. The date has already passed. By the grace of God, I hope we shall apply it. The Director of the Kenya Anti-Corruption Commission (KACC) should institute investigations into all transactions involving the project, and ensure that all officers involved in the crisis are prosecuted. I do not know whether they will do this. After all they cannot deal with existing corruption cases! The non-existence of the jetty is not an issue to them; money has been eaten, but nobody is going to be brought to book, yet we are saying that we are proud to be Kenyans. I am not! I cannot agree with this kind of thing. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, the rules and regulations on holding imprest in any Government office is that it should be surrendered in 48 hours. If you know the amount of money kept by officers upon return from trips, it is amazing. The Committee noted, with dismay, that some imprests issued during the year under review were still outstanding by 30th June, 1999 in the following Ministries, amongst others. One, again, State House! It had an outstanding imprest of £233,000. Multiply that by Kshs20 to arrive about Kshs4 million. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs had outstanding imprest of £712,000, Office of the Vice President and Ministry of Home Affairs £143,000, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development £370,000, Ministry of Labour and Human Resource Development £21,000, Office of the Attorney-General £216,000---"
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