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"content": "do not have the door for getting into those government procurement opportunities, then we will have done nothing. Most of them use other peoples’ companies to apply for contracts, and those cartels end up making profits on behalf of those that the Government actually targeted. In contracting, we are saying that class 6, 7 and 8 should be exempted if they are PWDs, women and youth. They should not pay any registration fee that exceeds 15 per cent. By doing so, we will empower a certain category of PWDs, women and youth, and they will now have the financial muscles to sponsor themselves to graduate into class 5, 4, 3, 2 and 1. We will have jump- started them to succeed. Once they are given those opportunities, I am sure that those people will work extra hard to prove that their ability is beyond their disability. The only thing I would want to address in this Bill is the issue of equality within the affirmative action groups. I would like Hon. Gikaria to help us with this in the Committee of the whole House. Currently, the 30 per cent allocated to women, youth and PWDs, women, by the help of their husbands, take 25 per cent of the contracts. The youth, being faster than PWDs, take 4.5 per cent, and the PWDs are left with 0.5 per cent. Most of the time, PWDs are left to supply toothpicks, toiletries, newspapers and certain materials that do not economically empower them, as envisaged in this Bill. I want Hon. Gikaria to help me on this. For example, if we have three affirmative action groups that have AGPO, 10 per cent should go to women, 10 per cent to PWDs and 10 per cent to the youth. This is simple mathematics, 30 per cent divided by three, each of them should get 10 per cent so that we can empower all of them equally. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, this Bill is very important and it has come at the right time. It has also been brought by a very competent leader of this House. How I wish that I was a citizen of Nakuru East Constituency. Now that I am not, there are other PWDs there who in the 9th August election can put such leaders in this House to prosecute more important Bills that will assist all of us, especially those at the bottom of the economic pyramid. Hon. Gikaria is a true hustler who has been practicing the bottom-up economic model as a leader, long before we came up with it. Thank you very much and may God bless you Hon. Gikaria. May God bless you too, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, for giving me this opportunity to contribute to such an important Bill. I wish you well and I am sure you will be in this House as a Deputy Speaker graduating from the Speakers panel and, if possible, the Speaker."
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