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    "id": 1076190,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Tongaren, FORD-K",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Eseli Simiyu",
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        "legal_name": "David Eseli Simiyu",
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    "content": "It is very interesting when you sit in the PAC and hear and see how the Government is functioning out there. Sometimes I worry whether we are on autopilot. Like my Chairman has just said, some of the happenings are mindboggling. You would expect to read some of these things in fiction or something, but it does happen in real life with our finances in the public sector. One of the areas that you find glaring anomalies is the so-called Government to Government procurement. I think it is time we sat down and relooked at that thing, the animal called Government to Government. What happens in this situation is that it is usually abused because the tendency is that the lending Government chooses who gets the tender and at how much and that money has to be paid back by the Kenyan public who had no control at all. This is the case and yet we never had competitive bidding. So, most of these projects end up being overpriced to the extent that when you look at it, you wonder why we retain such a procurement method. Unless we want to grow the 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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