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    "id": 1072109,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1072109/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kipipiri, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Amos Kimunya",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Amos Muhinga Kimunya",
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    "content": "The Bill also provides for all these other procurement processes in detail and various arrangements under Second Schedule. It makes them very clear for all parties, especially for our potential investors. When you look at the Public Procurement and Asset Disposal Act of 2015, and indeed all laws, they are designed with mischief and distrust in mind. We believe that everyone who is selling to Government is likely to steal. So, we make the law very difficult that you must pass so many hurdles to prove that you are not stealing from the public rather than facilitate you to do business. When something is being bought by the Government and then you load all those approvals and steps that you have to comply with which have costs, you end up with high prices. If you were to buy this water directly from the shops, you would do it at a fraction of what a Government institution would use by the time it lands here and because of all those bottlenecks that we make, the cost of doing business then becomes too much."
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