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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Kubai Iringo",
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        "legal_name": "Cyprian Kubai Iringo",
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    "content": "Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, for giving me this opportunity to contribute to this Bill by my good friend, Hon. David Ochieng. I stand to support the Bill because I feel it will bring some sanity in our parastatals and other public institutions. It will bring order, accountability and integrity into our public institutions. Our public institutions, especially parastatals, are going down by the day. Since Independence, we have had many situations of parastatals going down and others being mismanaged. The people who make them go down just go home scot-free. That comes about because most directors who manage such institutions are not knowledgeable on what they are supposed to do. Others are appointed because of political expediency. Others are in those particular positions because of their ethnic background. In the long run, the institutions either end up being run down or the Government comes in to put more funds so that the institutions can come back to life again. In the process, the taxpayers end up coughing up money through their noses not because of anything else, but because somebody somewhere was in a particular office either without the knowledge or knowingly going there to make some money. Most of our institutions, especially in the previous regimes, became cash cows. Parastatal chiefs used to get cash and give it to the people who appointed them to those positions, so that they can remain there. The politicians got that money for their benefit or to go and campaign or do other things. When they do that, the institution will just go down and somebody will come up and say: “Let us bail out this institution.” Yet, it had been stage-managed. That should stop. We should get directors who are properly trained and who will put in place an institution like the one that the Bill promotes. Qualified directors who are given the task of managing the institutions and they let them go down will be disciplined. Disciplinary measures should be spelt out and measures to recover the lost cash or properties of that particular institution should be put in place. It should be clear that those who sit in those boards as directors and managers should be people of integrity. They should sit there with the notion: “What am I going to do with this institution to make it better than I found it?” It should not be: “What shall I do to destroy this institution?” Some of them do not have the knowledge and they use the same money which should be promoting the operations of that institution to even buy the auditors. When the auditors go to audit, they give fake figures and “cook” the books and we are shown a very healthy institution once the balance sheet is produced. However, when you go deep into it, you find that the institution is already on its knees. Sorry to say those words because the Temporary Deputy Speaker who was on the Chair before you, cautioned that we should not mention Kenya Airways. However, I think that has 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."
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