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    "id": 696872,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Kang’ata",
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        "id": 1826,
        "legal_name": "Irungu Kang'ata",
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    "content": "sources. They can get either foreign funding or funding from the private sector to meet some of their objectives. I urge that the Committee’s recommendations be enforced, in particular the recommendation on page 7 of the Report, where we are proposing to the National Treasury to fast-track the restructuring and privatisation of poor performing commercial Sate corporations, like the KMC. It is one of the entities that have been mismanaged. We all know agriculture is devolved. I strongly believe that we can urge entities like the Council of Governors (CoG) to either come up with a KMC-equivalent institution that will do marketing of meat or, alternatively, we allow the respective counties to form their KMC-like entities. I also draw your attention to page 9 of this Report on the non-remittance of statutory deductions. We have various laws which compel employers to remit various deductions like PAYE, pension money payable to NSSF or NHIF payments. You will find there are several entities which do not pay these statutory deductions. Probably, we need to change the law and provide a situation where the managers of these State corporations have personal stake or they can be found personally culpable for failing to remit statutory deductions. This is money which they have already obtained from their employees. What reason do they have for failing to remit that money to the respective entities? The issue of land and buildings is captured on page 10. The parcels of land and buildings that belong to State corporations have been grabbed by private persons. I also belong to the school of thought that the Government should not be holding land. They should privatise land. The Government should give land to private entities to allow them play a crucial role. Dead capital on idle land does not make any sense. Why should a parastatal have 500 hectares of land that is not useful? Why can we not give that land to the private sector, which will employ resources to ensure it is used efficiently? I support."
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