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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Kimaru",
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        "legal_name": "Anthony Mutahi Kimaru",
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    "content": "Thank you, Temporary Deputy Speaker, for giving me this opportunity to contribute to this important subject on accounts of State corporations. I want to thank the Chairman and hon. Members of the Public Investments Committee (PIC) of this Parliament for tabling this Report. While thanking the Chairman of PIC, I also want to take this opportunity to thank the Chairman of Public Accounts Committee (PAC) for tabling, this afternoon, three consecutive accounts for the past three financial years. Going by what he said, and being a Member of the Committee, come March, 2015, we will be tabling the accounts for the 2013 Financial Year, which will enable revenue sharing to use the latest accounts. I want to mention that the issues that have been raised in this Report, as much as they look like old, are alive. They are alive in the sense that what we are witnessing in public investments by way of parastatals has been serious corruption going on over the years. We have realized that reports after reports that have been tabled, subsequent recommendations have never been implemented. You realise that there has been serious looting of property by way of land or by way of housing. If you look at parastatals like the Kenya National Assurance (KNA) Company which was a very big insurance company in Kenya, it had many properties spread throughout this country. But it remains a shell. Another example is the Kenya Railways Corporation. The KR has been a big institution and had a lot of assets in the past years but, as we speak, it has been privatised and it has gone through a lot of metamorphosis. It is a shell in itself. I would like to suggest that going by the reports and recommendations that have been made by various Parliamentary Committees--- We have come up with a new Constitution, trying to address the issues of corruption both at Ministries, departments and parastatals, but it seems that the new Constitution has not helped either. The Government has come up with other systems like wealth declarations where public servants are supposed to declare their wealth so that they are able to account how they got 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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