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    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/862992/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kinangop, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Zachary Thuku",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Zachary Kwenya Thuku",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker for this opportunity to speak on this Report. It is our Report because I belong to the PIC. I must say that it took us a lot of time to come up with this Report given the magnitude and the thoroughness that we had to accord all the State corporations in the Report. We observed several things and the one that was cutting across was the issue of land. Most State corporations have chunks of land for which they do not have title deeds. Many of them are in dispute and we recommended that the NLC fast tracks issuance of title deeds to State corporations because they are at risk of ending up in the hands of the people who have high appetite for public land. The case study is the NHIF. They have a piece of Land in Karen where they wanted to do a resource centre, a hospital and bring up other developments. Even after the designs and the drawings were done, it was difficult for the Fund to develop that land because it was in dispute. It is quite a big chunk and its value is so high yet there are about four title deeds in different hands. The other issue is impropriety in terms of procurement. The case study is the National Cereals and Produce Board (NCPB), which has become the benchmark of corruption and loss of funds. There was a case study of 40,000 metric tonnes of maize that was not delivered, but the vendor was supposed to be paid not less than Kshs0.5 billion from the coffers of the NCPB. It has become an issue and a shameful institution to talk about. From the recommendations that we 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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