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    "id": 96173,
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    "speaker_name": "Dr. Khalwale",
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        "legal_name": "Bonny Khalwale",
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    "content": "Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, as I make these acknowledgements, I would like to raise a great issue of concern that we at PAC come across, on an almost daily basis. It is the issue of co-ordination of Government ministries and departments. That lack of co- ordination ends up giving the impression that there is no respect for decisions made by institutions. Like in this case, we have the Ministerial Tender Committee. As an institution, they mid-wifed the process of tendering and gave to the person who was most deserving. Somebody did not respect that. Somebody then went to the Public Procurement Complaints Review Board. Again, the Board professionally looked at the complaints and made a decision that things were done above board. Again, because of lack of co-ordination in the Ministry, nobody respected that. Then they went to the Kenya Anti-Corruption Commission (KACC); another institution, which actually wrote to the Ministry and told them that they had no problem in these medical equipment and items being received. Again, nobody took note of that. This again shows lack of co-ordination. Finally, they went on and wasted public funds by taking the matter to court. It has taken all these years and the court has found the same thing; that right from the very beginning, the Ministerial Tender Committee, Public Procurement Complaints Review Board, KACC and even the recommendations by the Attorney-General were above board. It is important that we become cognizant of the fact that there is so much money being wasted by way of lack of co-ordination."
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