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    "id": 560975,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Nassir",
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        "legal_name": "Abdulswamad Sheriff Nassir",
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    "content": "In this Report, we will see how Board members violated procurement processes and acted in conflict of interest. Some of them were lawyers for the same organisations that they were meant to be Board members. So, there were inner dealings going on in some of these organisations. Some of these organisations have been run without boards for years thus putting the organisations’ day-to-day work and that of Kenyans at risk. These organisations have been run on weak financial positions thus putting the taxpayer at the risk of losing a lot of money. The Kenya Railways Corporation and the Nzoia Sugar Company incurred massive loses. None of this could be detected due to lack of financial reports. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, we will see procurement processes that were flawed on page 342 of this Report. Tender amounts were varied in some of these reports that we have put together for those 72 institutions. There were no budget controls and all of a sudden, institutions had to pay millions of shillings in legal and insurance fees. In some cases the boards exaggerated the amounts that had to be paid to them. All these are in this Report that I am urging my fellow Members to read and adopt. It is also sad that some of these organisations failed to remit employees’ statutory deductions like the Pay-As-You-Earn (PAYE), the NSSF contribution, the National Hospital Insurance Fund (NHIF) contribution and bank loans. The Auditor-General was put aside and previous regimes turned a blind eye to what was going on. I would not be surprised that the taxpayer’s money was probably used to develop others. Some of these organisations have ended up building in areas where land ownership is in dispute. In this Report, we will see how land has been grabbed. In the 342-page document, we have done our part by including, through proper forensic investigations, names of those who were allocated the said pieces of land. We are recommending that this House adopts this Report, so that an institution like the KNH does not lose out on expansion because of lack of land. We will also see how stalled projects have ended up as white elephants. The NHC tried to do something in Kibera without a board and eventually, all those projects stalled. In 1996, the Higher Education Loans Board (HELB) tried to do something without a proper feasibility study. In the process, more than Kshs38.5 million was lost. Losses were also incurred in Moi Teaching and Referral Hospital (MTRH). Our recommendations say that the benchmark and the target that should be included in the performance contract of any Chief Executive Officer or board member who wants to take any position should be to ensure that audited reports by the Auditor-General are passed by this National Assembly. Needless to say, we need to urge the appointing authority, that is the Executive, to ensure that these boards do not pass their timelines and put Kenyans’ livelihood and needs at risk. As a proud Member of the PIC, I urge with a lot of eagerness, that the other Members adopt this Report. They should not only adopt it but ensure that the Government implements and works on the recommendations. Thank you very much."
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