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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Njomo",
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        "legal_name": "Jude L. Kangethe Njomo",
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    "content": "can be able to do his work effectively. He can even outsource because the work in his hands is enormous. The Auditor General must know that he is working as an independent institution that should be free from any political maneuvers. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, you remember the Auditor General came to the Floor of this House and announced that over Kshs.500 billion had been misappropriated by civil servants, only knowing too well that the money had not been accounted for. One of the problems is what I mentioned about, the IFMIS not been available for a month after the audit, and the other issue is that some of the management letters had not been responded to. After going through the accounts, we did not see where this Kshs.500 billion the Auditor General was talking about was. There was no misappropriation of such kind. I must advise the Auditor General to tone down his language because it will demoralize those civil servants and those Accounting Officers who are doing their work effectively. When he comes with his report to the Floor of this House, let him give us a professional report that is free of expressions that cannot be founded in law or in accounts and which cannot be backed by any facts. There was an issue about procurement of police houses. That was one of the issues we investigated. I am one of the hon. Members who visited the site where police officers had procured the houses. I must say, judging from what we found, there was value for Government’s money. Some of the houses had already been sold and the Government got those houses at the same rate that the other people had got. To us, that was value for money. In fact, the question that lingered on our minds at that time was the kind of housing that our police officers are getting. In that same area, we got some three police officers with their families sharing one house. We found other officers who are married sharing a two bed roomed house; a sitting room had two police officers with their wives and children. It is a terrible way of life. The Government must invest and invest heavily in housing police officers. When we look at value for money, we must also think about the need. Our police officers have to be housed. They have to be equipped and I think that this must be done. The Report mentions that this was done in a single sourcing method. I remember very well that there was pre-qualification process after which the tendering was done. To us, that was not single sourcing. That was a tendering system and may be due to the rush that was there to provide housing, may be that is why it was seen like it was a single sourcing type of procurement. But to me, it was overboard. Going to Constituencies Development Fund, it has done enormous work for our country. I must commend hon. Members of Parliament in the previous Parliament for what they did. I challenge our county government; if they allow devolved funds to be used in a similar manner, we are going to have serious development in our country and that is the truth of the matter. Finally, there is the issue of the petrol station in State House. It was claimed that 85 per cent was paid for a job that was not done. The job was done, but a new Government came in and decided they did not want to have a petrol station; they wanted to have an office block. So, the petrol station was converted into an office block. What has been alluded to is not the correct position; that the work was paid for when it was not done."
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