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    "id": 721772,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Keynan",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 41,
        "legal_name": "Adan Wehliye Keynan",
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    "content": "Four, the NSSF collects funds from the plot owners to cater for the infrastructural development. The NSSF does not donate water, roads and so on, but the owners of the plots must also pay for the provision of those services. We also said that the EACC must investigate the circumstances under which the NSSF first bought the plots. It must bring to the fore all the players who were involved in the acquisition, purchase and development of this to the public. We also said that the Ministry of Labour, Social Security and Services should not interfere with the procurement. As far as the Public Procurement and Disposal Act, 2005 is concerned, an independent or quasi Government agency does not require the guidance or direction of the CS or PS. They should be left to run their own affairs. We also said that Section 49 of the NSSF Act be amended to allow for the approval of investments of the Fund by the Board of Trustees. There is something very interesting that we realised. We looked at the modus operandi of the trustees and we noted that one of the ways the trustees communicate to each other is via emails. There was a problem because there was an email generated during this process and later on the content of that email was contested by one of the trustees. Eventually, it became known that, that was the way they wanted to run the affairs of that important agency. In conclusion, this is about our country Kenya, our image and development. This is about our time as the leadership of this House and by extension our generation. Therefore, some of the missed opportunities of the 1960s, 70s, 80s and 90s must not be taken to the next generation. I say this because the other day, as the PIC was interrogating the accounts of the Kenya Meat Commission (KMC) and the Kenya Oil Refineries (KOR) that is the only thing that came to my mind. Most of my Committee Members last week proudly decided to move by road from here to Mombasa just to look at how certain important projects are done. We hear that oil discoveries are being made in the Rift Valley, parts of western Kenya and parts of North Eastern, but the very infrastructure that ought to have been prepared for this has been looted. The KOR is closed and yet we are saying in the next two years Kenya will join the league of oil-exporting nations. Why are we lying to the taxpayers? Why are we lying to our neighbours? Why are we lying to the international community? The KOR is at its worst state in its history, simply because of wheeler-dealers. It is high time the leadership of this country apprehended these economic plunders. That is the only way we can develop. Look at the KMC. I am a product of a pastoralist parent. When we got our Independence, we used to have holding grounds. We used to have rangelands. Do you know what happened? The land where the KMC is purportedly located belongs to individual land grabbers. How will we develop? Today, my parents, constituents and the area where I come from export animals through Somalia, Ethiopia, Djibouti and other countries simply because the very institution that is supposed to take care of the welfare of the pastoralists has been completly destroyed. In 1968, the Republic of Botswana sent some of the best brains, livestock professionals, to come and learn from the KMC. Forty years down the line, ours is closed, but the Botswana Meat Commission is the best meat processing facility in Africa. It exports meat to European Union, America and China. Forty years down the line, because we are in the process of reviving the KMC, we are now sending new graduates to go and learn from Botswana. What are we telling the world yet on the face of it, we are very proud and aggressive? We are destroying the fabric of this country. If truly this country must develop, we must protect some of these critical national institutions regardless of who is in power or who is managing them. That is our heritage. Those are the institutions that bring about improved socio-economic welfare of the people of 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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