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    "id": 1007399,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Ugunja, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Opiyo Wandayi",
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        "legal_name": "James Opiyo Wandayi",
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    "content": " Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, thank you very much for using your discretion to allow me to make some comments. Actually, I came running when I heard my friend and Member of the Public Accounts Committee (PAC), Hon. Daniel Rono, contributing very robustly as usual on this very important matter. Let me say at the outset that I support these Regulations. However, even as I support the Regulations, my understanding is that the problem we have had in procurement generally is not inadequacy of laws or the regulations. What we have had as a problem of procurement in this country is failure by the people who are charged with the responsibility of procuring for the respective agencies to adhere to the laid down procedures and rules. A bigger problem is that nothing has ever happened to those who have flagrantly abused the laid down procedures to serve as deterrence. That is the biggest problem. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, if you look at these Regulations and the parent Act – the Public Procurement and Asset Disposal Act of 2015 – you will notice that Kenya is one of the very few countries in sub-Saharan Africa with a robust legal regime. The question is why then we continuously have to face a situation where procurement becomes the single-most important avenue for corruption? Why is it so? The answer is simple. Those who have continued to abuse these processes and procedures have never been held to account. There is an issue that keeps on recurring in public procurement – the so-called \"direct tendering\". There is also the issue of \"restricted tendering\". There is no better way of stealing public funds, from what I have realised, than to hide behind terminologies like \"direct tendering\", \"restricted tendering\", and so on and so forth. A third terminology which raises eyebrows is the so-called \"government to government tendering\". 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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