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    "id": 510406,
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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Nuh",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 2840,
        "legal_name": "Junet Sheikh Nuh",
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    "content": "One of the biggest diseases that are facing this country is corruption. There is a lot of pilferage and misuse of public funds. You will get to know that when the audited accounts and financial accounts of Government Ministries are presented to the National Assembly. There is a lot of misuse of public funds and resources without any due consideration that, that money belongs to Kenyans, which includes the Accounting Officers. I will go to some of the reports that have been presented by the Committee. If you look at the former Ministry of Provincial Administration and Internal Security, this is the Ministry that you can describe as a den of corruption in the Government. I remember one time His Excellency the President admitting that his office had problems and he was going to sweep it clean. If you look at the Report of 2010/2011, there is the issue of purchase of vehicles at a cost of Kshs460 million. That issue had appeared in the reports of the previous years, of 2008/2009 and 2009/2010, where the Treasury paid the amount of Kshs460,161,822 for 159 units of vehicles which were never delivered. That means that the people of this Republic lost almost half a billion shillings on goods that were paid for and were never delivered. The Accounting Officers that time are known and some of them are still working in the Government. The then Accounting Officer for that Ministry was one Francis Kimemia, who is still sitting pretty as the Secretary to the Cabinet of the Government of this country. He should be told to tell Kenyans what happened to that money. He should be held to account. He is alive; he is not dead. He should be judged while he is alive. If you go to the subsequent 2012/2013 Report, there is a loss of Kshs2,853,300,000, which cannot be accounted for. If you look at the Report, which was done properly by the Committee, which is a good job by the Committee, which I also sit in, some of this money was withdrawn in cash. I do not know of a time when Government funds have been withdrawn in cash. Nowadays, even ordinary Kenyans use credit cards and other forms of payment. They never withdraw cash because of insecurity for the ordinary Kenyans. It is surprising to see Government funds being withdrawn in cash to the tune of Kshs2.8 billion. What is even more amazing about that transaction is the timing. It was done in February and April, a time when you can recall, was a transition time when this country was preparing for an election. You know that the Government that was in place at that time was a lame-duck Government. It was a Government that was waiting for another Government to come in, so that it could hand over power. You have these huge transactions in a period like that time; February, March and April, and you hide under the guise of security because you do not need to tell Kenyans what you want to spend this money for. In one day, you go to the bank and withdraw public funds four times without explaining what you intend to use it for. If that is not corruption, then I need to be told what corruption means. The then Accounting Officer is well known. He is sitting pretty in the Government right now in the name of Mutea Iringo. He is the Principal Secretary in the Ministry of Interior and Coordination of National Government. These are people who are alive. They can be asked to tell Kenyans how that money was spent. This is the scenario that this country has been suffering from since Independence. Action should be taken. There is no need of investigation. Many reports have been taken to the Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission and the Criminal Investigation Department (CID), but nothing has come out of it. This is a clear indication. These are records from the Kenya National Audit Office . You do not need any more verification. The Committee has done its report; it is now the mandate of the Director of Public Prosecutions to take action and recover the money from those The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposes only. Acertified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
}