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    "speaker_name": "Nakuru Town East, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. David Gikaria",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker. First, I thank Members who have contributed to and supported the Bill. I reiterate that when I appeared before the Committee, I made a case for myself on some of those issues which have been raised. The first issue is what Hon. Oundo has talked about. This Bill is just an amendment to Section 17 of the Act. It has nothing to do with the assets a company should have but or about qualifications. A company has to meet the qualifications for tenders. The qualifications that are set out for registration as a contractor are supposed to be met. I agree with what Hon. Pukose has said about the numbers coming down. When I engaged the Committee and NCA, I asked them the highest number they have ever received in a year for AGPO membership. And the numbers were so low. So, the issue of collection is not an issue. Secondly, the construction levy was supposed to be 0.5 per cent. I even raised this issue with the President at one point, and an Executive Order was given to stop the construction levy at 0.5 per cent. That is the amount of money that we need to reinstate. NCA will get a lot of money out of that levy. This was done to cushion those people. Whoever issued that Executive Order was trying to protect a few of his people who were exiting the Government. This is because we could have collected a lot of appropriations-in-aid (A-in-A). Thirdly, and this is for the benefit of Hon. Oundo, though he is not here, NCA Classes 8, 7 and 6 contractors are not awarded the big jobs like the construction of big apartments and other buildings. Those are categories for jobs of up to around Ksh10 million per contract. This is a small amount of money for doing drainage on roads, grading roads and doing minor repairs 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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