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    "id": 1016870,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. (Dr.) Musuruve",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Getrude Musuruve Inimah",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, for giving me this opportunity to support the Bill before us. I begin by commending Sen. Farhiya and Sen. Sakaja for coming up with this Bill. It is a timely Bill geared towards correcting some of the wrong in budget making process in counties. There is need for a legal framework to ensure that those who supply goods and render services are paid promptly because many people take loans to do business with counties. Sometime banks do not even give them a grace period within which they are supposed to start servicing their loans. Banks start immediately recovering their loans without notice. Therefore, when a person delivers goods and renders service to a county and he is not paid immediately, he ends up suffering psychologically because the bank wants him to start honouring the loan repayment immediately. I support the stringent measures being proposed in this Bill. If goods and services are rendered to counties, payment should be done immediately. Failure to do so within a given timeframe, fines and interest be charged in line with Central Bank of Kenya (CBK) rates. This will force counties to honour the contracts they enter with our suppliers of goods and services. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, procuring entities of goods and services must be fair to suppliers so that there is a win-win situation. When a Government agency floats tenders for it to get services and goods, it means it is in dire need. Therefore, if a supplier has supplied goods, then he must be paid promptly. I want to speak on the issue of Access to Government Procurement Opportunities (AGPO). You will find that quite a number of Persons With Disabilities (PWDs) have the AGPO certificates. When they supply goods and services, they are not paid immediately. It takes time before they are paid and this causes a lot of frustrations among PWD. I want to give an example of a PWD, Mr. Gushu who is a businessman. Three or five years ago, he supplied goods to National Youth Service (NYS), but to date he has never been paid. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, during the Budget, the Government sets aside some allocation for AGPO so that PWDs can benefit. However, the reality on the ground is that The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate."
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