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    "id": 858987,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mvita, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Abdullswamad Nassir",
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        "id": 2433,
        "legal_name": "Abdulswamad Sheriff Nassir",
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    "content": "The Judiciary should consider prioritising and expediting conclusion of cases involving illegal acquisition of public land with a view of restoring it to the public. Any officer who causes delays in processing of title deeds should be personally and severally held responsible going forward unless the delay is caused by judicial action. The other thing that we have noticed that runs across is poor implementation of projects and concept of the same. Our intent as a Committee is that we will, in every quarter of the year, present a report. In the next report, you will be seeing issues like the Kenya Airports Authority (KAA) which is not here but issues where implementation of some of these projects is yet to take effect. There is also an issue like the construction of a multi-storey car park that NHIF ended up paying a variation of 338 per cent which was due to change of Government funding policy. We also have the NSSF Hazina Towers which I must congratulate this Committee because at the right moment, we were able to save this country close to Kshs6 billion. I will get to those details later on but close to Kshs6 billion was saved courtesy of this Committee where we ended up having variances that were not making any sense at all. We have had projects that have taken too long that are in this Report. The Kenya National Library Service Headquarters has been a project that has been ongoing from the year 2012. It was meant to be completed by June 2016. We are ending 2018 but the project is yet to be finalised. We have the Kenya Industrial and Research Development Institute with procurement of leather processing and production equipment. By March 2015, items worth Kshs129 million were yet to be installed and put into usage. This of course results in vandalism and depreciation of this equipment. The Committee has noted that this resulted in loss of public funds through payment of interests on delayed payments. Our recommendation on the same is that accounting officers should always undertake feasibility studies on any project they wish to undertake before implementing it. Accounting officers should place responsibilities on entities with capacities to The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposes only. Acertified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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