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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I want to give one example in the Ministry Higher Education, where finances have not been used properly. This is on pages 260 to 263 of the Report. The Ministry procured goods and services in the year 2007/08 worth Kshs31.8 million. The goods were procured through single sourcing in blatant violation of the procurement rules. When they asked the Ministry why they did that, they said they had to procure those services directly through a unit which they refer to as “Kabete Maintenance Unit”. After grilling of the Permanent Secretary, he admitted that this unit is not efficient. It was actually more costly to use the unit than to procure competitively. This is a classical case of misuse of funds where failure to adhere to procurement rules may have cost the Government to lose Kshs31.8 million in procuring the services, which were the renovation of offices in Nairobi and in some provinces for the Ministry of Higher Education, Science and Technology. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, these are just few examples amongst the many which are contained in this booklet. We have made several recommendations here that the Kenya-Anti Corruption Commission should pursue these cases with speed. In the case of the Ministry of Higher Education, Science and Technology, we have recommended that the KACC should investigate the activities of the Kabete Maintenance Unit to establish whether public funds were competently expended according to the Government rules. It is also up to the Government officers who are running institutions, the Accounting Officers in particular, to take administrative action to ensure that some of these things do not occur. We may overload the KACC with so many cases which would otherwise have been avoided if our Accounting Officers were doing their work accordingly. Let me finish by saying that as a Committee, we shall endeavor to continue revealing the malpractices that happen within our Government. We hope we will go to a new dispensation where we will be talking about value for money audits; expect to get more insight into whether we get value for the money that we spend in our Ministries. With those remarks, I beg to support."
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