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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Seme, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. (Dr.) James Nyikal",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, for giving me the opportunity to contribute. Procurement is the main vehicle of execution of all public projects. As the Hon. Member said, all the money in the projects is expended through procurement. It is this process that ensures projects are completed, are quality and the absorption of the funds that we appropriate in this Parliament is done. So, it is an important function. It is also the greatest risk for graft, corruption and loss of funds in which both the public and the businesspeople equally suffer. There is therefore need to have a clear structure of handling this. The Act itself gives very clear guidelines but, it is this statutory instrument that will actually give the details that will guide how the processes take place. It will give clear identity of the roles of people responsible and the responsibility that different people hold. It gives the precise processes of advertising, bidding, and opening of the tenders. It also gives the types of tenders and even the monitoring of the processes, if it is a case of construction or whatever process we are dealing with or variations. Those are the areas where we actually make losses as the public. Those are also the areas where businessmen can lose their businesses and wind up. It will also give the processes for termination and how the terminations are handled. You heard of the big fines that have been given. There have been processes where tenders are purposely made faulty, terminated in a faulty manner, and the Government and the public ends up paying huge amounts of money. There are crafty businesspeople who have perfected the issue of faulty terminations. It starts as the process starts and they know it will be terminated. They know the process will be faulty but still they will get money. It is important that the details are in place. The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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