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"content": "Hon. Speaker, Sir, when the Mover of this Motion was moving it yesterday, he shared with us a letter annexed to the Report - that is Annex 11. That, if it was not for the intervention of Mr. Joseph Kinyua, the situation could have worsened. On one hand, he is commending Mr. Joseph Kinyua for interventions and on the other hand, in the body of the Report, he is asking that action should be taken against Mr. Joseph Kinyua, Mahboub Mohammed and James Ongwae. Hon. Speaker, whom do we trust and how do we go forward because the Leader of Majority Party and the Mover of the Motion and many other hon. Members raised concerns that Mr. Joseph Kinyua wrote a very good letter, stopping SGR members from opening of Letters of Credit (LCs). If we have to go by what the Mover of this Motion was saying yesterday, we need to expunge paragraph 12 from this Report. Hon. Speaker, Sir, on paragraph 14, recommendation (a), the trustees of SGR, Messrs. Mahboub Mohammed and James Ongwae to be held accountable for failure to perform their collective responsibility under the agency agreement. I do see how because the agency agreement it between SGR and NCPB. The process of developing a tender to the exclusion of that particular tender, with all the technicalities is the responsibility of NCPB. The role of SGR trustees is merely an advisory arm. They have signed an agency for NCPB to implement the tendering process of grains on behalf of SGR. How do you again go back and hold the trustees responsible for the actions of NCPB. Messrs. Joseph Kinyua, Mahboub Mohammed and James Ongwae were not in the technical evaluation Committee; neither were they in the tender committee. Hon. Speaker, Sir, we know where the mistakes occured and who did the blunder. How do you go back and hold the people who were only there giving advice responsible? If you go to part (b):- “The Trustees should be held accountable for failure to plan for the resources to execute the project contrary to public procurement regulations.” Hon. Speaker, we got a letter from the Permanent Secretary, Finance, stopping the SRG trustees and cautioning them that:- “Government money was lost before. Take care!” Secondly, this is not a normal Government budgetary allocation. This is a drought intervention. It is a crisis. It is like when your house is on fire. Then somebody will ask you, instead of putting out the fire, somebody will ask you; bring me a plan of putting off the fire from your house. It will not work. This is not normal Government budgetary allocation; it is an emergency or disaster response. For that purpose, the trustees cannot be held responsible. Finally, on paragraph (C), Page 14; “The Trustees in their individual and collective capacity should be held accountable for their inaction to render advice on the termination of the contract or settlement of the matter when it was apparent that M/s Erad Supplies and General Contracts Limited lacked the capacity to deliver, after the expiry of the contract delivery period and further, when it was also apparent that there would be no further available funds for maize importation.” Hon. Speaker, Sir, the role of terminating the tender was purely an NCPB role. Those are the trustees or the advisory board. They are not the ones who were executing 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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