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    "id": 507794,
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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Kang’ata",
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        "legal_name": "Irungu Kang'ata",
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    "content": "of parastatals which are doing well. We can also apply sanctions to the heads of parastatals which are continuously on a loss-making trend. One of the reasons why we do not have very good quality of output in Public Service as compared to the private sector is lack of incentives. In the private sector, if you do well you get bonuses and promotions. However, in Government, if you do well, no one is going to recognise you and there is nothing that you are going to benefit as a Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of a parastatal. During the Kibaki era, the United Nations (UN) feted the Government for coming up with the concept of performance contracting. I, therefore, belong to the school of thought that believes that performance contracting should not just be a policy issue. Let us crystallise that policy into a law, so that CEOs of those parastatals which do well - you can see several of them when you look at these reports - should be feted. They should be given some recognition and incentives for them to continue doing well. Chief Executive Officers of parastatals which have been gobbling Government resources should be punished. We went to Mombasa the other day to look at the parastatals in the Coast region. One of the issues that I noted was that the Kenya Ferry Services (KFS), for instance, is a parastatal owned by the Government. It is a loss-making parastatal. It does not make money and it has a lot of audit issues. However, it is an entity that can be turned around simply by coming up with good ferry services. We know of other jurisdictions where ferry services are very advanced. I would, therefore, propose that as we debate this Motion, we come up with better ideas on how to redress the malpractices in our parastatals. The best idea is to come up with a law guiding performance contracts."
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