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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Mwaita",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Sammy Sila Komen Mwaita",
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    "content": "Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, for giving me the opportunity to contribute to this. I am a Member of the PIC and I wish to applaud my Chairman for the able manner in which he moved the Report. First, I support the adoption of the Report. The Tassia II Project had become a cash cow, particularly for those who were in the NSSF and the Ministry of Labour. They allowed squatters to move into what used to be known in the 1990s as the Mwenje Scheme, the then Member of Parliament for Embakasi who used to have miradis where he organised squatters to move into private property. Fortunately in this particular case, the court ruled in favour of the NSSF. When they were told to move in and talk to the Ministry, they agreed to resettle the same squatters at a fee. The gist of the problem which we observed as a Committee is that the issue of infrastructural development such as roads and water, so that the plots are serviced, should have been done earlier. They moved in, subdivided plots which were not properly planned without subject approval from the local planning authority, in this case, the former City Council of Nairobi. That was the problem. Nonetheless, consultants were brokered and services were procured to plan and construct the infrastructure at a whopping cost of Kshs4.5 billion. As my able Chairman said, how they were procured was suspect. Most of the decisions and the minutes were handled through the so-called closed email circulation. Minutes of the board were approved through emails. I support what the Chairman said and the recommendation that maybe for Kenyans to get value for money, this issue of using emails without proper hard copies should be looked into. I support the amendment of the Chair. The other aspect that I wanted to talk about is the issue of the turnover of CEOs. As my able Chair said, the NSSF is a career killer because of the turnover. CEOs come and go. The workers’ money is at risk. Maybe something should be done. As the Chair said, we should provide security of tenure for the top managers of the NSSF. Year in, year out, the NSSF has two 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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