{"id":507871,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/507871/?format=json","text_counter":330,"type":"speech","speaker_name":"Hon. Nuh","speaker_title":"","speaker":{"id":2840,"legal_name":"Junet Sheikh Nuh","slug":"junet-sheikh-nuh"},"content":"Thank you, hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, for giving me this opportunity to contribute to this Motion on the 18th Report of PIC. I would like to thank the Committee for presenting this very important Report for the purposes of this House to adopt. As the Members are aware, parastatals are investments that the Government makes on behalf of Kenyans. But when you look at the trend since Independence, Chief Executive Officers, boards of directors and chairmen look for positions in those parastatals basically for looting and nothing else. Reports have been done time and again since Independence, indicting many officers and CEOs for malpractices in the parastatals that they head. It looks like no serious action has been taken that could deter those people from looting public resources. If you look at this Report, it contains bad things and gross crimes that have been committed against the Kenyan people. Their properties, money and wealth has been looted. There are cases of illegal occupation of land belonging to corporations. Those parastatals work on behalf of Kenyans. For example, the National Water Conservation and Pipeline Corporation and Kenya Agricultural and Livestock Research have lost prime parcels of land in many parts of this country. Those parcels of land have been taken by people for their selfish use and gains. If you also look at the issue of irregular disposal of property, you will remember that the Kenya National Assurance Company was one of the biggest insurance companies in East Africa, as has been said by the Chairman of PIC. It was first mismanaged, run down and later, when it went under receivership, they continued looting it. Properties of high value belonging to that Corporation in very good places like Nairobi and Mombasa were sold for a song without due regard of evaluation reports. Those properties are found in Muthaiga, Kibagare Warehouse in Loresho and Mua Park in Mombasa Road and Nyali Manager’s House in Mombasa. All those properties were sold at less their worth value. Unless action is taken against the perpetrators of this crime, this country will continue losing money even today as I speak. If somebody looted properties of Kenyans in 2011/2012 and no action was taken, what will deter a person who is working for the current institution from doing the same? He knows that the guys who looted before him went scot-free. He will say: “I am not going to get out of this institution empty-handed.” If the guy who was ahead of him got money, why would he not do the same thing, so that when he goes home, he will have something in his pocket? Unless action is taken on these reports, I do not think any solution will be found to curb corruption. The biggest problems that this country is facing at the moment are ethnicity and corruption. Most of the insecurity that you are seeing is aided by corruption. People who are in charge of handling security matters get compromised through corruption. Unless those people are prosecuted and action is taken against them, we will not find a solution to this problem. When the Kenya National Assurance Company was put under receivership, the receiver manager collected money amounting to Kshs.3 billion. He ended up giving back 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."}