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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. F.K. Wanyonyi",
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        "legal_name": "Ferdinard Kevin Wanyonyi",
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    "content": "no confidence in our country from some of the foreigners who want to do business with us. It erodes confidence in our country and in whatever we are supposed to do. That is why today, when you look at some of the foreign investors; they prefer going do business elsewhere, for example, Rwanda a small country. I have been to Rwanda and I worked there when I was the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) for Kodak. The country was just coming up and we were far ahead of them. Yesterday, as one of the hon. Members just mentioned, the Rwanda I saw on the documentary, I could not believe it. I did not believe what I was seeing happening in Rwanda. I saw the President walking out of a car being escorted by three vehicles. Here, if you are coming to town and the Head of State is coming to town, I think you will be pushed aside; a lot of wastage of time. Hon. Speaker, all I am saying is that the issue of pending Bills is just work not being done by the people we have empowered to do the business. No wonder, as I said, this has made it hard for people who want to come to do business with us. Thirdly, the underperformance of this economy is nothing other than people being lazy. We had the Performance Contracting (PC) system which started about five years ago. What has happened with the system of performance contracting, where targets are set for each CEO of the Ministries? I saw them being signed recently. So, what is happening with this under-performance of our economy? Hon. Speaker, I want to say this; although we are doing postmortem, I am not sure that the current report I am going to get would have some of these un-doings. I saw the A-in-A collection of some of the operations in our institutions. They are doing business for us, but some of them are not recorded. There is no record of A-in-A generated by some of these performing financial institutions. Apart from the records, some of them are not even collected and accounted for. So, that is why we are having problems. Hon. Speaker, if we are serious as a country let us go back to the system we have set, the performance contracting; a very good idea was borrowed from America and German, from economies that are doing very well. The other thing is the wastage that I saw in the Report. That again is something that is very graying; it is an eye sore when you walk at the countryside. Seeing infrastructure that is supposed to have been completed yet they have not been completed is very sad. When I was a CEO of one of the parastatals in the lake side; there was a building of three floors that had sat for eight years and over Kshs300 million had been sunk there. By the time I went there, nobody was concerned; it was just business as usual. I think it has been reported in this Report. Of course, you can see the assets that Kenyans pay for. Just go to the Ministry of Public Works and see how many lorries, tractors and trucks are being wasted in the yards. Hon. Speaker, there is something I have noticed and again is coming up in this Report. It is the foreign travels and seminars. Something must be done because we have had people going out for seminars and again this has come up in the Report. We have people travelling out there and coming back; resolutions are passed. Can I tell you what happens? They are put on the shelves to wait for the next generation. What are we going to do and what are we doing about that? The other one is this outstanding imprest that we all know about. Those who have had time and opportunity to work with the Government know that you are supposed to surrender imprest within forty eight hours. So, what has happened? I think the 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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