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    "id": 1145020,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kisumu East, Independent",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Shakeel Shabbir",
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        "legal_name": "Ahmed Shakeel Shabbir Ahmed",
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    "content": " Thank you very much, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I have been listening with great interest the concerns my colleagues have raised. Firstly, I declare that I am the Chairman of the African Parliamentarians against Corruption. Many parliamentarians belong to our caucus; I see Hon. Chachu and many others. We are most concerned about procurement laws. This Bill is here to try and solve some of the problems. I know that one of my colleague who spoke before me dwelt a lot on the issue of the Chinese. We are getting away from the actual fact. The issue is that the procurement law had many flaws which are taken advantage of by the ‘tender-preneurs.’ These guys are professionals. We, the anti-corruption brigade, went to Egypt where we talked about some of these issues and brought out the issue of budgeted corruption. Presently, people budget for corruption five years from now. They put together pre-thought out contracts so that they budget for them. They then effect the tenders and put designs of stuff that is not available in this country and go and compromise our local engineers and our local contractors who are sub-contractors. They force the sub-contractors to do their bidding. We do not have to go very far away. This building of ours has taken nearly ten years. The biggest problem it had is the sub-contractor was being frustrated by the main contractor, and the sub-contractor was also not able to put his part and everything was negotiated by the building contractor. The main contractor held everyone at ransom. That is the one major thing that we need to deal with. Procurement fraud has resulted in one of the major international efforts 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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