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    "content": "(12) THAT, all Government entities must procure goods and services in accordance with the Public Procurement and Asset Disposal Act of 2005 and Public Procurement and Disposal Regulation. The County Executive procured the low loader without following the procurement process. The said low loader, though delivered to the County Executive premises, has not been officially received and fully owned by the Vihiga County Government. The low loader is parked, not being used for the intended purposes. Hence, the public is not getting value for the money. (13) THAT, most of the tenders are awarded to companies in which some senior officers of the county Government or their relatives are directors. (14) THAT, Kshs61.5 million cannot be fully accounted for since some projects have not been executed and some contractors who have completed their work have not been paid. The contractor who refurbished the county assembly chamber has threatened to close it because the balance of Kshs8 million has not been paid but the work is completed. Optic Technologies was paid for installation of HANSARD and voting machine systems in the county assembly chamber when the same was not installed. (15) THAT, the County Executive recruited some people and later some of them were deployed in unclear circumstances on the pretext that the wage bill was high. It has emerged that some people are recruited and assigned positions in fields they do not qualify. (16) THAT, the functions of the County Government are clearly stipulated under the Fourth Schedule of the Constitution of Kenya 2010, the projects are budgeted for and implemented by the county Government in accordance with the functions. The county executive has executed some projects which have not been budgeted for. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, there is a list of projects that have been executed without being budgeted for. (18) THAT, clear scrutiny of the projects listed in paragraph 17 points out that the projects like the construction of Vihiga County Courts Headquarters and the Kenya Medical Training College (KMTC) computer laboratory are to be undertaken by the national Government since education is a function of the national Government. I will skip 19 and 20. (21) THAT, none of these issues in this petition are pending in any court of law, constitutional or any other legal body. Wherefore, your humble Petitioners pray that, the Senate:- (22) Through its relevant Committees, the Senate undertakes an urgent investigation into the matters raised in this Petition with a view of establishing:- (a) How Kshs 1.6 billion received from the exchequer for development in the financial year 2014/2015, inclusive of the Kshs900 million budgeted by the County Assembly for ward development was spent. (b) How Kshs105 million from the Vihiga County Emergency Fund was spent and carry further investigations on Vihiga County Emergency Fund. (c)How Kshs61.5 million released by the Transition Authority was utilized. (d) How Kshs100 million, money appropriated for Vihiga county Empowerment Fund, was utilized. The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposes"
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