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    "id": 748994,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Rop",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Jackson Kipkorir Rop",
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    "content": "No. I do not want to cross over. I am saying that we need to have people with good intentions that will help turn around the economy of this country. We have a Budget of over Kshs2.3 trillion. What does it translate to? Our people are languishing in poverty and the youth are unemployed. We are suffering. Food prices are high. The whole country is suffering and yet, we have a Budget of Kshs2.3 trillion. Those who are in leadership must do something. When you look at the Report, you will realise that there was total disregard of procurement procedures, the Public Finance Management Act (PFM), rules and regulations so that they could circumvent the procurement procedures by rushing to the supplies branch and pretend to have some materials that can easily be sourced through supplies branch. The firms they used were not registered companies. They were just business firms. They could move in and make the firms appear in the list of tenderers that have been prequalified in the supplies branch so that they can use them to source the materials. Kshs791,385,000 went like that! Three firms of one individual benefited from the funds. Those business firms were just scooping the murram and the transport was from National Youth Service (NYS). So, you have given somebody a tender to supply murram and yet, the scooping machines and transporting machines are from the Government. Then those firms are paid a cool Kshs791 million to take home. We marvelled. This was outright theft, well planned not by small men and women, but the big fish. We are saying that Executive interference in the NYS caused the saga that we are seeing today. The Cabinet Secretary could order everybody left, right and centre. That is what the witnesses have indicated in this Report. The Cabinet Secretary could instruct by phone that people do what she says or they go. A “small” man would want to survive because he has people to take care of and so, what a boss instructs you to do, you have to do it. If you were given a tender for Kshs20 million for example, they could easily add a zero to make it Kshs 200 million. There were a lot of fraudulent issues both from the department to the Integrated Financial Management System (IFMIS) Department at the Treasury, where they could manipulate the figures to appear as if the tenders were awarded that much. This is in the Report of the Criminal Investigations Department (CID). When the CID carried out the investigations, they discovered 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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