Dullo Fatuma Adan

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• 24 Sep 2020 in Senate: Throughout the Committee’s tenure, we held hearings with various public officials, both past and present, from the Ministry of Health. We also met with public officials from the National Treasury, the Controller of Budget (CoB), Office of the Auditor-General (OAG) and public officials from national Government agencies such as the Kenya Medical Supplies Authority (KEMSA), the Pharmacies and Poisons Board (PPB), Kenya Bureau of Standards (KeBS), the county governments, the MES contractors and civil society. The Committee also engaged in site visits to some of the beneficiary counties, hospitals and headquarters offices of one of the MES contractor in the ... view
• 24 Sep 2020 in Senate: The Committee considered both oral and written submissions of the witnesses in determining the issues and preparing this Report. view
• 24 Sep 2020 in Senate: In the course of the investigation, the Committee established that the MES Project was meant to serve Level 4 and 5 county health facilities and selected national health referral facilities as beneficiaries of the services under the contract. view
• 24 Sep 2020 in Senate: The Committee notes that the MES Project was a classic case of a good idea with potentially high benefits for the people of Kenya that was bungled up during implementation due to irregularities and outright unlawful acts. Accordingly, the MES was a good idea, but badly implemented as far as the Committee is concerned. view
• 24 Sep 2020 in Senate: Mr. Speaker, Sir, with your permission, I will now proceed to highlight some of the findings of the Committee. We wanted to know whether the Ministries did a needs assessment as far as the project is concerned. We interacted with both the Ministry of Health and the Council of Governors (CoG). What transpired at that particular time is that Ministries were saying that the needs assessment was done, but Gov. Oparanya who represented the CoG as the Chair, said that the needs assessment was not done. The counties also said that they were not involved from the beginning as far ... view
• 24 Sep 2020 in Senate: We looked at the needs assessment simply because we wanted to know how prepared the counties were as far as the project is concerned and how the equipment was placed. Unfortunately, most counties said that needs assessment was not carried out. view
• 24 Sep 2020 in Senate: The Committee, while undertaking its enquiry, established that the supply of medical equipment to Level 4 and Level 5 facilities in the counties was initially conceptualised as Public-Private Partnership (PPP). The total cost of the project, including infrastructural support, was to be Kshs4.3 billion, then per year, over a period of 10 years. Out of Kshs4.3 billion, the national Government through the Ministry of Health, was to pay Kshs1 billion. The national Government, through the National Treasury viability gap finding, was to pay Kshs2 billion, while the county governments were to pay Kshs1.5 billion, translating to roughly Kshs31 million per ... view
• 24 Sep 2020 in Senate: The Committee further recommended that culpable officers, who bear the greatest responsibility, be barred from holding public office. The Committee also noted with concern the opaque manner in which procurement under the MES project was done. Article 227(1) of the Constitution provides that- “When a state organ or any other public entity contracts for goods and services, it shall do so in accordance with a system that is fair, equitable, transparent, competitive and cost-effective.” From the investigations, the Committee established that the Ministry of Health procured the services of financial and legal consultants directly and in a manner that did ... view
• 24 Sep 2020 in Senate: Section 17 of the Office of the Attorney General Act obligates the Government Ministries to seek the approval of the Attorney General before procuring the services of an external legal consultant. Mr. Speaker, Sir, the Committee also noted with concern the opaque manner in which procurement under MES project was done. Article 227 (1) of the Constitution provides that when a state organ or any other public entity contracts for goods and services, it shall do so in accordance with the system that is fair, equitable, transparent, competitive and cost effective for the investigations. Therefore, clearly, you will see that ... view
• 24 Sep 2020 in Senate: document and all that. However, at the end, they said that they do not have the power of attorney, and they ended up signing the contract. The Committee, therefore, recommended that the circumstances under which the tender was awarded to GE East Africa is in contravention of The Public Procurement and Assets Disposal Act and the requirement in the tender document be investigated. Mr. Speaker, Sir, as for the financial advisors, the Ministry of Health retained the services of PKF and SPA, who developed the public sector comparator that formed the basis for the awarding of contracts under MES. Further, ... view