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    "id": 863719,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kitui Central (WDM-K",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Makali Mulu",
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    "content": "There is also the issue of pending bills. The other day, we visited the Industrial Area Prison as a Committee. When we went there, one of the very surprising things which shocked us as a Committee is that the facility has about 30,000 remandees who have not been taken to court and sentenced or released. The statistics we got show that each of these people spends about Kshs270 per day for their upkeep. If you multiply Kshs270 by 30,000 remandees, it means this country is spending Kshs8 million everyday keeping people who have not been taken to court in remand. Some of the offenders are not worthy being in remand. Somebody was arrested by traffic police hanging on a matatu . He is there eating Kshs270 every day and he has been there for three months. He has not been taken to court and we say we are serious as a country. If we have to be serious, the Constitution demands prudent use of resources and we can only be prudent in the use of resources if some of these small bits are addressed and we get rid of them. I do not have much time. I just want to focus on the key ones so that I allow other Members to contribute. Let me revisit the issue of IFMIS, which has been in this country for quite a number of years now. As a Member of the Budget and Appropriations Committee, I remember we gave money to IFMIS for improvement or re-engineering, whatever they call it. From what I see in this Report, the funny bit is that despite all the resources that the Government has put into this system, it still has shortcomings. If you try to fix a system for more than 10 years and it is not giving you results, is it not time to think about doing away with it and think of another system which is more efficient? The last resort in such a situation is if a system cannot work, then we go back to the manual system so long it is able to deliver. So many excuses have been given as a result of this system. Anytime you talk to anybody, the excuse is IFMIS. All Government 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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