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    "content": "Of course, when you are rudely interrupted like that, you lose the momentum. I hope I will regain as we go along. Kindly add me one more minute. I mentioned the issues of procurement and disposal. Disposal is an elephant in itself. Goods belonging to the Government are sold at a throw a way price. When you compare with the goods being bought, sometimes you find an item like a pencil and a biro attracting crazy amount of figures. The other day we had the famous “wheelbarrow.” It is ridiculous. People are still going scot free. In fact, they have been uplifted. They are now big people in Government. It is like they were honored and given a gift for procuring the wheelbarrow at a very expensive price. We talked about the issue of people getting paid. It is a nightmare to get paid when you actually supply the Government. The other day for example, we told our youths to come and join this bandwagon of people tendering for goods so that they can supply the Government. I know of a youth group that supplied the Government and it has taken two years for them to be paid yet they were starters. How do we uplift such people who never saw payments for two years? It should be very clear. If you are tendering for goods, money should be in the account and not the money you are expecting. It is wrong. Let us use the CDF model as my Chairman said. This is where you have the money then you procure. For anything short of that, we should not follow. That way we will never have any pending bills in this country. Lastly, I support this digital submission. Of course, the world is going digital, but if you are to go digital, let us do so totally. I find it very difficult if we do it in totality because you will need to bring a sample of what you are set to supply. I do not see a sample coming via digital. Another issue is the tender regulations. We have had items that we tender. Even when the committee was awarding the tender, a Member of that committee might have even come from a supermarket or the manufacturer and they know so well that the price of that item is two-times what he has seen, and yet he still awards the tender because there are underhand dealings in these matters of tendering. We need to kill this. I like their regulations. As I said earlier, I had some tightening poles so that we move forward and forget about these people who are overnight millionaires as a result of tendering goods for the Government. I support."
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