Hon Anthony Kimani Ichung'Wah

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• 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
• 5 Oct 2016 in National Assembly: Because of the problem of not having boards, you will find that when a Chief Executive Officer’s three-year contract has expired, a new CEO is appointed in an acting capacity. They cannot hire a substantive CEO because there is no Board of Directors. That is why we are recommending that nobody should act in such a position longer than the stipulated duration in the Public Service Code of Regulations. view
• 5 Oct 2016 in National Assembly: Secondly, all the boards of State corporations should develop and implement a human capital management and succession strategy to ensure continuity, enhance accountability, efficiency and effectiveness in the management of State affairs. view
• 5 Oct 2016 in National Assembly: Thirdly, the relevant appointing authorities should ensure that all vacancies in the boards of various State corporations, for instance, Kenya Revenue Authority (KRA) and Central Bank of Kenya (CBK) are filled in the shortest time possible. The tenure of board members should also be staggered to avoid a situation where the term of board members expires at the same time. That is why I was mentioning the board members for the respective parastatals. I am glad to note that for the CBK, there has been a move to appoint a board. We are also recommending that the appointing authorities, be ... view
• 5 Oct 2016 in National Assembly: The eleventh general observation is on outstanding imprests. I am trying to be very quick and summarise. Members will note many issues to do with outstanding imprest from many State corporations. That is money given out not just to the CEOs, but also to staff members in the State corporations. That is money you are given to spend probably on a trip somewhere and account for it later on. Many never remit the receipts on how they have spent the money. Some of these things are synonymous with the same State corporations. The Horticultural Crops Development Authority (HCDA) is perfect ... view
• 5 Oct 2016 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I have heard Hon. Wamunyinyi ask which year I was in Form Two. view