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    "id": 507872,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Nuh",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Junet Sheikh Nuh",
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    "content": "a paltry Kshs.7 million in the year 2001, when the Kenya National Assurance Company 2001 was formed. So, the receiver managers looted Kshs3 billion and nobody has been taken to court over that matter. There are investments the Government is making on non-performing organisations. An example is the National Social Security Fund. Those are public funds; workers’ money that is being collected and somebody invests Kshs1 billion in form of securities with Discount Securities and ends up losing Kshs1.2 billion. As we speak, nobody has been held responsible for that crime. It is amazing. It can never happen in any other part of the world. It is only here in Kenya where you steal, go home to sleep and you are glorified and become a big man. That is the irony of this country. The other issue is the Kenya Pipeline Company which spent over Kshs.846 million on capacity building only. It is as if they never went to school and they were being taught what to do. They even ended up using over Kshs4 million to go for a trip to China so that they could be taught what to do. What are you learning from China for Kshs4 million that you do not know? This is wastage of public funds. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, the Triton Petroleum Company Scandal was the biggest petroleum scandal that has ever happened in the East African region, where Kshs.7 billion was lost. Nobody has been held accountable for that crime to date. Even banks almost lost their monies and the guy who was running the company ran away. The Kenya Pipeline Corporation lost a lot of money and to date, nobody has been held accountable, despite it being the biggest scandal of that year. This Report contains many irregularities that have been committed by many parastatals. Unless the Committee on Implementation does its work after the House has adopted this Report, this country will always lose money in grand corruption that takes place. It is high time Reports, especially from the Standing Committees - the Public Accounts Committee and the Public Investments Committee - are taken very seriously and implemented to the letter. This is because there are recommendations that have been made to the relevant authorities, like the Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission and the Criminal Investigation Department. They should do their work with speed after the House adopts this Report. They are using taxpayers’ money to do their job. This country is suffering from institutions that have refused to function and yet, they have been given constitutional mandates. They have been funded properly through taxpayers’ money and yet, they have just refused to do their job. An institution has been charged with the responsibility of implementing the recommendations of the National Assembly, but instead of doing its job, it just puts the Report on the shelf as though nothing has happened. That encourages people who want to loot public funds. Those who steal say:- “If the people before me in 2012 stole and nothing happened, why should I also not steal?” That is the game that everybody is playing."
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