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    "id": 696777,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/696777/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Ichung’wah",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 1835,
        "legal_name": "Anthony Kimani Ichung'Wah",
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    "content": "The seventh general observation is on the breach of procurement laws and this cuts across all the boards. We have observed that several State corporations continue to violate the provisions of the procurement law and regulations in their procurement of goods and services. For instance, the Auditor-General could not confirm the propriety of the total expenditure of a sum of Kshs16.5 million on the procurement of goods and services for the year ended 30th June 2011 by the Kenya Medical Laboratory Technologists and Technicians Board. Further, the Board engaged, through direct procurement, the services of an auctioneer, tax and legal firms and incurred an expenditure of about Kshs395,000, Kshs600,000 and Kshs130,000, respectively. This is just one example of how the law is being contravened by many CEOs in State corporations and their boards. The Committee again recommends that the National Treasury and the Public Service Commission (PSC) should ensure that qualified and competent personnel are seconded to strategic departments such as finance, procurement and human resource during the inception of any new Government entity. We include this recommendation because some CEOs have claimed that they got incompetent officers who were seconded from ministries when the State corporations were set up. That is why we recommend that the Government and the PSC should ensure that the thousands of our young people who are well educated are employed in the Public Service and not necessarily to second staff from ministries who may not have been trained in the specific areas of finance, procurement and human resource issues."
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