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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Ng’ongo",
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        "legal_name": "John Mbadi Ng'ong'o",
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    "content": "You cannot explain. How on earth can a Ministry or a Department withdraw Kshs300 million? That is why this Committee is recommending appropriate disciplinary and prosecutorial action against the relevant Accounting Officers. Again I want to be very categorical; the Permanent Secretary responsible for this Ministry at this time, and I think that is none other than Mutea Iringo, must be held responsible and prosecuted. These people must be prosecuted. They cannot just misapply the taxes that Kenyans pay - all of us pay taxes. We are not enjoying paying taxes but we must do that to provide services and not to line up the pockets of a few individuals. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, again in the same Ministry, I want to go to the irregular procurement of residential houses and commercial units for police. This is a Ministry where some officers just decide on a particular day that they want to procure police units and then they give description. They even say that they want three bedroomed and two bedroomed houses in the ratio of 80 per cent to 20 per cent. How on earth would a genuine person who has property know that? How would he even anticipate that there will be a requirement for this number of three bedroomed houses and this number of two bedroomed houses? It is clear that this advert was tailor-made for a particular vendor. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, you realise that there was only one person who forwarded the bid and without shame, that one particular vendor provided a sealed tender. Now, the question is: If you are only one, why do you even put it in an envelope? Why do you not walk to the Ministry and hand in the quote? That is for that Ministry and a lot of irregular procurements are in it. However, I want to talk about State House, if you allow me. State House paid up to 85 per cent of a contract sum for the construction of a workshop and a petrol station at State House, which was contracted for Kshs105 million. State House paid Kshs88 million by the time of audit. However, up to January this year the level of work was so low. You find payments were made in May 2012 and yet the work stalled in 2011. This is something that we cannot forgive. This is something that cannot be excused. The Accounting Officer of State House then must be held responsible. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I want to talk about the Judiciary. Judiciary is another den of corruption and when we bring a comprehensive audit report on Judiciary, it will be a shock to this nation. This is one department of Government where the official residence of the Chief Justice has been in the public news for quite some time. The professional surveyors have estimated that, that House cannot cost more than Kshs180 million, yet the Judiciary paid Kshs310 million. Even the procurement methods used were faulty. Above all, the House is not even occupied as we speak. What a waste of Government expenditure!"
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