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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Odanga",
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        "legal_name": "Geoffrey Makokha Odanga",
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    "content": "Thank you, Hon. Speaker. I also rise to support the Report as moved by Hon. Aden Keynan who has done very well during the 11th Parliament. I believe he will continue playing this role in the 12th Parliament and I hope all of us will come back here. Parastatals are State organisations which are run for the benefit of the people of this country and their good management is very important to all of us. I am very happy that PIC has been following up on the running of these institutions to ensure that it is smooth. Unfortunately, it has been reported that there is some hostility from the management of some of these institutions. In future, we need to come up very clearly on what should happen to State Corporations whose leadership does not co-operate with institutions like the Oversight Committee of this House and other institutions including the Office of the Auditor-General. If those leaders are not co-operating, then we need to give teeth to the House of Parliament, Committees and the Auditor-General to ensure that these people are arraigned and steps are taken to ensure they are not given any other appointments in the running of State Corporations. This is very important and we do not think that there should be anybody running any organisation of the Government should stand in the way of an Oversight Committee such as PIC. It has been said that sometimes a lacuna arises when the term of a board comes to an end and there is an appointment of another board. This should be clearly and properly done in a standardised manner so that, at least, when board members terms expires there are those who remain to keep the institutional memory and to ensure that the CEO does not have a field day to do whatever he/she wants. Unfortunately, these State Corporations have been used as cash cows in this country and this is something we need to bring to a stop because it means they are not able to provide services to Kenyans as they required and were created to. Some of them do not remit their statutory deductions to the National Hospital Insurance Fund (NHIF) and the National Social Security Fund (NSSF). Nowadays, we are using Integrated Financial Management Information System (IFMIS) and the National Treasury is controlling everything. It is prudent for the 12th Parliament to make some laws so that these statutory deductions are done from the source and directly remitted instead of going down to the State corporations. Sometimes, I know the leadership also faces many problems and maybe the little finances they have are used as they wait for other funds. The NHIF penalties are very high and these State corporations continue to suffer. While we blame them we also need to establish why they do not remit those statutory deductions on time so that we do not just blame them for the sake of it. Hon. Speaker, I support."
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