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    "id": 507810,
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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Limo",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Joseph Kirui Limo",
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    "content": "Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, thank you for giving me this chance to contribute to this important Report. From the outset, I want to say that a report is important because it is information and information is power. When information is delayed, it loses meaning. It is no longer relevant; no action can be taken because it will have been overtaken by events. However, the Committee has tried; if you look at the Report, it is a big volume but we want them to move with speed. If you look at this Report, it is for the year 2010 meaning that they still have a long way to go to bring other reports to speed. It is worrying that in this country most parastatals are running at serious losses. It is a burden to the Government because it continuously allocates funding to the parastatals whereas the idea of having parastatals is to have services rendered to the Kenyan people in a more efficient manner than how the Civil Service does. If you take an example of countries like China, parastatals are engaged in very productive activities, including building roads and bridges and moving out of their own country to go and develop other countries because they have been run professionally to the extent that they do not talk about losses. They talk about value addition to their country. I do not know when in this country parastatals will move in that direction, and when we will not be talking about very serious issues and not delaying publication of financial statements. We have several incidents in the Report of unsupported payments. Those are very simple control issues. If you look at this Report, there are many parastatals with land problems. Most of the land owned by parastatals has no title deeds. Some of them have title deeds but they have been allocated to the wrong people. It is worrying that a Report like this one comes out and names those who have made mistakes in the past. When it is recommended that action be taken against them, my question is whether this is practical? You find some people who have been listed here are already dead. Some of them are no longer officers in the Government. So, what action can you take? There is even a list here which shows some officers who were sent to monitor what the parastatals were doing – they were working in the Efficiency Monitoring Unit (EMU). They received Kshs2.3 million and their names are listed. I am not surprised that all those people may not be working right now in the Government. Therefore, when we recommend action; this is quite futile because no action can practically be taken against those people. We have seen many parastatals, including the Kenya Railways Corporation (KR) and the Kenya Wildlife Service (KWS), which have many assets and those assets are categorized as non-earning assets. They are rotting away. They may not have any use in 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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