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    "id": 1152544,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Sakaja",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Johnson Arthur Sakaja",
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    "content": "at the beginning of every financial year of the cost of goods and services. Thereafter, prepare current cost handbook which must be publicized. Thereafter, prepare current cost handbook for the use in decision making.” Mr. Speaker, Sir, that is extremely important for us so that this information is available. I can see I have five more minutes. There are many other amendments here that are of cleaning up or rather editorial review just to sort out where there had been mistakes. However, I now want to go straight into the area of real interest. There was a reason why we struggled to get those provisions in Sections 165 and 166. Many procuring entities in this country have treated our young persons and women as if the provisions of this Act are a mere suggestion. If you look at the budget we have in our counties and in the national Government, if 30 per cent of the procurement budget goes to the hands of our young people, women and PWDs, especially our young people, a lot of the social ills we are seeing will not be there. Mind you, 30 per cent is not the number of contracts. It is value of procurement which people must understand. Mr. Speaker, Sir, that is where we can properly integrate the bottom-up philosophy. We make sure that at the lowest level in the wards, we have created entities, companies, SACCOs and put our young people in groups that can procure a service or goods with Government. The opposite of that, the top down is just a few big wealthy entrepreneurs hoarding all of Government procurement. Mr. Speaker, Sir, despite your political side, that is a provision no one can have a problem with. That we empower our young people. The young people at the lowest level in Nyamira County in a ward in Mugirango can be enabled and trained given the provisions up there to do business with the Government. Mr. Speaker, Sir, I am the author and the father of the 30 per cent law because I brought it. Sen. Halake, it is so even if you look at me like that. I am the one who brought that law in 2015. The reason I want to become a Governor is that the laws we have done in this House, and I have brought a lot of laws from 2013 to date, are not being implemented by the Executive at both the national and county levels. I assure young people and women in Nairobi County that this will be the headquarters of 30 per cent. They have the capacity and ability. They have gone to school and they have companies. We will enable them to form those companies. I have said repeatedly that the Senate has been a stumbling block. When we brought that law, we said that every six months, every procuring entity shall give a report to the Public Procurement Regulatory Authority (PPRA) outlining the number of contracts and tenders they have given to young people, women and PWDs. The Senate and National Assembly Committee that is charged with equalization of opportunities shall then bring that report and table in this House a list of shame of the county governments and the Government ministries at the national level that have failed to implement the provisions of 30 per cent. It is extremely important. I thank the former Chief of Staff at State House. We went and had a meeting with him and he said they were incorporating it in performance contracting. That part of the performance contracting to be given to the accounting officers at the national level and 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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