{"id":685583,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/685583/?format=json","text_counter":216,"type":"speech","speaker_name":"Hon. Oyugi","speaker_title":"","speaker":{"id":444,"legal_name":"Augostinho Neto Oyugi","slug":"augostinho-neto-oyugi"},"content":"the specifics of the action that ought to be taken against the people who were in-charge of YEDF. I commend the PIC because they have come up with a well done Report. I would like to speak not to the persons who allegedly engaged in these atrocious crimes, but to what in my view are institutional issues which the PIC recommended. Firstly, the PIC recommends that the National Treasury should constitute a multi-agency team composed of various persons to look at the performance of various projects undertaken by the YEDF since its inception. This recommendation tells me that probably there was no framework for monitoring the application of the money given to the YEDF. This is in itself is worrying. How would we not know how much money has been disbursed and what impact it has had on our youth? There should have been a framework for monitoring how much money has been disbursed to the youth and ascertaining the impact that the money has had on the beneficiaries as well as the country. Secondly, in this Report the PIC talks about the proceeds of crime, anti-money laundering law and the creation of a financial reporting centre. The Committee proposes amendment of the law that constitutes the Financial Reporting Centre (FRC). I appeal to the members of the Committee, as their own initiative because they understand the facts, to move this amendment so that we do not leave it in the hope that someone else will do it whereas Parliament can do it. What I would like to speak to more is the third recommendation, which talks about confirmation of the CEO of the YEDF. There are several organisations in this country with people given roles in acting capacity for so long. When someone is made an acting CEO for so long, it creates appetite for theft. It makes them feel like they are not entirely answerable. I can name several organisations which still have acting CEOs. The CS in charge of youth affairs must move with speed to either confirm the acting CEO or engage in the process of ensuring that we recruit one to run the YEDF in a proper and organised manner. The fourth recommendation of the PIC gives the Attorney-General (AG) the responsibility of submitting draft legislation to the National Assembly not later than two months from the adoption of this Report. This is a task which should be taken up by members of the Committee because they know which sections of the law should be amended. The Committee should not leave this work to the AG because we know the procedure. It is much easier for the Committee to move an amendment to legislation and have it fast-tracked. The fifth recommendation speaks to the Auditor-General undertaking a forensic audit. It shows that a breakdown had arisen. It is requesting that the Auditor-General shows how much money has been appropriated by the National Assembly to the YEDF since its inception. This is almost “cut” and “paste” of what the first recommendation speaks to. Right now, this House does not have a record of how much money we have given to the YEDF. That is why there ought to be a framework within which funds that we appropriate to the YEDF ought to be substantiated. On the recommendation that speaks to the AG reporting back in not less than two months after the adoption of this Report, with the implementation of the FRC and the Assets Recovery Agency (ARA), I think the Committee should move on its own motion. The danger with giving roles to other bodies is that sometimes there is laxity in the performance of that duty. The PIC knows where we have a problem. If at all it is the fast-tracking of the FRC and the ARA, these are activities the PIC ought not to delegate. They should be the ones taking them up. On the seventh recommendation, with regard to Chase Bank not having engaged in due diligence with regard to money laundering, that is also as a result of the sixth recommendation, which is on issues of FRC and ARA. If the Committee dealt with those two Acts back to back, it would make more sense because it would save us a lot of work. The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."}