Entry Instance

HTTP 200 OK
Allow: GET, PUT, PATCH, DELETE, HEAD, OPTIONS
Content-Type: application/json
Vary: Accept

{
    "id": 979718,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/979718/?format=api",
    "text_counter": 572,
    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. (Dr.) Mwaura",
    "speaker_title": "",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 13129,
        "legal_name": "Isaac Maigua Mwaura",
        "slug": "isaac-mwaura"
    },
    "content": "Thank you, Madam Temporary Speaker. I stand guided. These professional bodies are able to discipline their members and withdraw their practicing licenses. That is not something we have seen in Kenya. If you look at the Land Use and Physical Planning Act, one of the challenges of implementation of it is because the Ministry of Land has proposed regulations to do online conveyancing. But who are the people who went to court? They are the lawyers. A lot of corruption happens during conveyancing around the land registries. We all know that land is a critical factor of production. Every project has an accountant, but we have not seen the accounting body, The Institute of Certified Public Accountants of Kenya (ICPAK), deregistering members of their association when they are involved in corrupt practices. We have not heard them issue press conferences or calling people to disciplinary action. When people are professionalized and registered, then you remove quacks. Madam Temporary Speaker, another element that is critical is awarding contracts to people who are quacks. You have somebody who registered a company yesterday, and today, they have won a road tender. Then they subcontract or expend monies as is and are able to cover up, especially when you have professionals who come to audit those projects. On one hand, you have monies that are budgeted and, on the other, you give it to quack people. At the end of the day, you bribe those people who would be professionals and would adhere to a code of ethics that would occasion the value for money to the public. There is the idea of awarding seasoned companies, even if there are beginners who are youth, women, persons with disabilities, and other marginalized groups of people of which we belong. They are also able to grow so that there is value for experience. The recent census has shown that 75 per cent of Kenyans are below the age of 35. You would want to mentor such individuals. However, when you give them projects they are not able to handle, then it leads to what I have alluded to as development corruption. This will lead to increase debt stock, which is causing a lot of liquidity challenges. The Government is over borrowing domestically and crowding out local investors. This is not spurring growth in the country."
}