Hon Anthony Kimani Ichung'Wah

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• 5 Oct 2016 in National Assembly: Lastly, the Chief Executive Officers or Accounting Officers whose State corporations’ land and buildings have been illegally disposed of should liaise with the Office of the Attorney General and the National Land Commission with a view to ensuring that all those titles are revoked and land reverted to the State corporations. The fifth general observation is on expenditures across the board. In almost all those State corporations, expenditures go beyond the budget. This is a very easy thing because State corporations operate within budgets set out and approved by their parent ministries and this House by extension. Some go to ... view
• 5 Oct 2016 in National Assembly: approvals. Some take long to obtain that from their parent ministries or from the National Treasury. We have, therefore, recommended that CEOs of State corporations that have spent beyond their approved budgets should obtain, within three months of the adoption of this Report, post facto approval of their revised budgets from boards, parent ministries and the National Treasury if their expenditures were necessitated by factors beyond their control. We must emphasize that it must only be as a result of factors beyond the control of the boards of the State corporations. This is because some of the expenditures are those ... view
• 5 Oct 2016 in National Assembly: fully complied with to ensure that they are not paying people who should not be earning allowances. view
• 5 Oct 2016 in National Assembly: The seventh general observation is on the breach of procurement laws and this cuts across all the boards. We have observed that several State corporations continue to violate the provisions of the procurement law and regulations in their procurement of goods and services. For instance, the Auditor-General could not confirm the propriety of the total expenditure of a sum of Kshs16.5 million on the procurement of goods and services for the year ended 30th June 2011 by the Kenya Medical Laboratory Technologists and Technicians Board. Further, the Board engaged, through direct procurement, the services of an auctioneer, tax and legal ... view
• 5 Oct 2016 in National Assembly: Further, we recommend that the Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission (EACC) should, within a month of the adoption of this Report, initiate investigations of the officers of any State corporation who have been mentioned in this Report as having violated the procurement laws and regulations. The Report is available for anybody who may need it. I believe the EACC will, and must, move with speed within a month to get hold of it. In fact, the moment this Report was tabled in this House, it became a public document. The Report was tabled many months ago. Therefore, there is no reason ... view
• 5 Oct 2016 in National Assembly: In line with Section 115 of the Public Procurement and Disposal Act of 2005, the Director-General of the Public Procurement and Oversight Authority (PPOA) should debar for a period of not less than three years any individual or company and its directors and associates that have been found to have colluded with officials of State corporations to violate the Public Procurement and Disposal Act 2005 and its regulations. This will go a long way to discourage private sector players from engaging in corrupt activities or encouraging public officers to flout procurement laws to the benefit of private sector business people. view
• 5 Oct 2016 in National Assembly: Again, in line with Section 125 of the same Act, the Director-General of PPOA should, on a quarterly basis, publish in, at least, two widely circulated national newspapers, the names of companies, individuals and directors barred from doing business with any national Government or county government entity. Again, as we said, we put this recommendation in a great way to discourage such corrupt tendencies within the private sector. Those people are debarred from doing business not just with Government and State corporations, but even at the county government level. We have realized that many people who get debarred from conducting ... view
• 5 Oct 2016 in National Assembly: business with State corporations or the national Government devolve their corruption to the county governments. view
• 5 Oct 2016 in National Assembly: The eighth general observation is on unqualified audit opinions. The Committee commends State corporations which obtain well deserved and unqualified opinion from the Auditor-General. I beg your indulgence, Chair, to mention a few of the State corporations that have unqualified audit reports from the Auditor-General. This means that throughout the audit period that we were covering, many of those State corporations did not have audit queries in their audited financial reports. They include the Retirement Benefits Authority (RBA), the Information and Communication Technology Authority, the SACCO Societies Regulatory Authority (SASRA) and the Unclaimed Financial Assets Authority (UFAA). The latter is ... view
• 5 Oct 2016 in National Assembly: recommendations, we have encouraged the ministries and State corporations, where they have their chairman appointed by His Excellency the President, to always move with speed to ensure that they, at all times, operate efficiently and effectively by having full boards in place or, at least, by having adequate quorums to convene board meetings. We recommend that boards of the various State corporations should ensure that an officer does not act in a position for longer than the period stipulated in the Public Service Code of Conduct. view