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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mvita, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Abdullswamad Nassir",
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        "legal_name": "Abdulswamad Sheriff Nassir",
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    "content": "electricity token system. We are asking for a special audit on the system. The second issue is that of faulty transformers. There was the issue of the Geothermal Development Corporation as well. We have indicated and we are insisting that this should be done by the Office of the Auditor- General. When a State Corporation does something, it will always have an effect on another. One of them is the Kenya Electricity Transmission Company (KETRACO). There were delays in a number of their lines. The job of KETRACO is to transmit power and that means that their job is to take power from one source and send it to another. If the line ceases to be there, we will have losses at the point of origin of this power itself. The Committee has therefore recommended that the Office of the Auditor-General should conduct a performance audit to establish whether the process of procuring the Nairobi Ring Project was value for money. This includes loss of power. Every time power becomes expensive, it definitely makes the cost of living in this country go high. Secondly, there was the issue of implementation of the Lessos-Tororo, part of the NELSAP project. The Office of the Auditor-General should conduct a performance audit to establish whether there was value for money on the same because there was a company in Spain which ended up going down and under. I would like to give other examples as well. This is the issue of the Kenya National Library Service where, if the National Treasury does not allocate funds for the projects that they have already started and are completed, then every single year the account will be simply milked by contractors. There will ever be a variation caused by interest because payments have not been done. We are emphasizing that these delays should be stopped and they can only be stopped if Treasury allocates rightful amount of money so that those projects are completed. After that, the country can consider doing many other of the ambitious programmes that we currently have in place. I would like to give another example. I remember us walking into the meeting and very casually we were told that a contractor is requesting for Kshs 20 million per week because of delayed works. Not because work was done but because work was delayed. This amounted to Kshs 6.8 billion. Had this Committee not intervened at that very moment, we would have now talked about an audit query of Kshs6.8 billion that had already been paid. The Ministry in charge of public works had not been involved from the inception of these projects, but when they came in, they were able to break it down and say that these figures should not exceed Kshs 800 million. That is the recommendation of this very Committee that will be adopted by you, Hon. Members. I can see Members from Nairobi County with us here and this is something that touches on Nairobi. The National Social Security Fund signed a contract with a company which was to do a project called Nyayo Estate Embakasi. They went ahead and made payments for the work that had already been done. Now, what amazes us is that they did not seek authorization from Nairobi City Council and in the middle of construction, the Nairobi City Council stopped it because public facilities such as playgrounds had not been considered in the initial plan. There were concerns from the members of the public at that particular moment and this contract was meant to have expired by 2014. To date, this is an issue that is pending. In our recommendation we have said that the NSSF should liaise with the Office of the Attorney-General so that they can confirm that the bank guarantee that was given by the contractor can be utilised in any other legal way. If this Kshs 215 million has gone to waste, someone should be held accountable. We are asking the Office of the Auditor-General to conduct investigation to establish whether the Ksh215 million was value for money. 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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