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    "id": 1152560,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1152560/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Halake",
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        "legal_name": "Abshiro Soka Halake",
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    "content": "amendments to ensure that this lens of the devolved units and procurement is strengthened so that this opportunity of this legal reform is not lost by this House and this Bill is passed as is, missing that opportunity. Issues around absorption, lengthy procurement processes, borrowing, some counties are borrowing to cover shortfalls. What is creating the waste is the lack of below optimal capacity at the same time the legal battles of procurement processes that is happening, that has been dealt with a little bit. I am happy about that because the frivolous people running to the courts have been addressed. These are some of the things we need to look at. Not just at the national level but also at the devolved unit so that we move in tandem both at the national level as well as at the devolved units. Planning is the key driver of success in these things. I have not seen much by way of amendments in the planning section of this Bill as much as in other sections. We should not take this opportunity for legal reform to become superficial and miss the point of the key drivers of lack of inclusivity especially for women and youth in procurement and People with Disability. This House, we need to look at these issues and bring the amendments necessary to make this Bill much more robust and much more county facing."
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