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    "id": 742783,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Aluoch",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "John Olago Aluoch",
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    "content": "Thank you, Hon. Speaker. I have had the privilege and honour of serving in this Committee as a ranking Member and I wish to draw the attention of this House to the fact that the 21st Report contains reports on 42 State corporations as set out between page 3 and page 4 of the Report. I want to commend our Chairman, Hon. Aden Keynan for having provided the leadership that we required in this Committee. Sometimes it was very difficult to get the information we wanted. He always went out of his way to ensure that the Committee was properly facilitated and even able to get proper witnesses from the State corporations. Some of the corporations that we were dealing with were hostile to the Committee and were not willing to disclose some of the information that was required. I want to address two issues that have been mentioned in the Report. One, is the Mwongozo Regulations by the Government and the appointment of CEOs and board members under the State Corporations Act. In this Report, you will notice that for long periods of time many of these State corporations have been operating without boards of directors. The effect of that is that CEOs had a free hand to deal with finances of corporations as and when they wanted. This is not proper because it opens the management of these corporations to pilferage and theft of public funds. 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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