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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Aluoch",
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        "legal_name": "John Olago Aluoch",
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    "content": "Very quickly, I want to say that this Special Report demonstrates the impunity of senior civil servants conniving with the private sector to steal public funds. That is what comes out from this Report very clearly. If you look at the Report, you will find that a company by the name of Quorandum Limited whose Managing Director (MD) is one Kamau Ngamua was conniving and stating, without a blink of an eye, that he hired a consultancy firm from the United States of America (USA) to assist in coming up with the responsibility that was given to the company by the YEDF. He even mentioned a name of a company and a consultant based in the USA. Immediately, since I have the privilege of serving in this Committee, we established that the firm he was referring to did not exist in the USA. The consultant he was referring to is somebody who had died. This is a very serious issue. I wish to add my voice to those who voted in the Report to say that the persons who were found to have been the perpetrators of these crimes, from the CEO of the Fund, the Chairman of the Fund and the companies through which they were siphoning the funds, should be investigated and charged with the offences as recommended. But most importantly, while carrying out these investigations, we made recommendations that can help the President and other appointing authorities in deciding what type of people to be appointed to head parastatals. On page 515 of the Report, we have certain recommendations. These recommendations are in consonance with what the Government calls “Mwongozo” - the code of governance for State corporations. One of them is that anybody to be appointed to a board of a parastatal should hold a minimum qualification of a degree relevant to what they are going to do in the parastatal. Secondly, that person must have proven business management and other relevant professional experience. Thirdly, that person should have served in a senior management position for, at least, six years before that appointment. Fourthly, that person should not have served the same entity as an employee in the preceding five years. Fifthly, the person should meet the requirements of Chapter 6 of the Constitution on integrity. Sixthly, that person must meet the requirements of the “fit and proper test”. Hon. Deputy Speaker, we came up with these recommendations because in many investigations we have carried out in the PIC, we find that those who have been appointed to these positions are people who have not been tested. They are also men and women who do not have relevant experience. This is the case and yet they do not have time to be trained. So, they end up looting the coffers of these institutions because they are either ignorant or they are plain dishonest. If these recommendations are considered by the Government and other appointing authorities, we will have better performing boards of our parastatals that are manned by men and women of integrity, are properly qualified and are experienced. I support the Report."
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