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    "id": 1378614,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1378614/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kinangop, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Kwenya Thuku",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 13380,
        "legal_name": "Zachary Kwenya Thuku",
        "slug": "zachary-kwenya-thuku"
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    "content": "We cannot have contracts with questionable stipulations that are designed to fail. Some contract designers do a shady job, then rush to court and get the tender awards. It is high time that we stamped our authority as a House and have standard documents to guide the tendering process. As it is, some of those documents are tailor-made with an end in mind. On the issue of sticking to procurement plans, we should ensure that once we pass a Budget here, we should not come back to do supplementary budgets. This distorts the purpose of the procurement plans that we put in place. A good example of this is every time we reach out to the NG-CDF Boards for money, they ask us for procurement proposals. We stick to those proposals to the end. If we want to make changes, we have to write to the Board seeking permission. Why is this not happening within ministries? Why do we have to abandon some of the projects and bring in new projects? We should not be happy passing the supplementary budgets. Let us have a full-cycle Budget that should be used for the entire financial year. By this, we will solve the issues of pending bills and new projects that are initiated in between the implementation of budgets. Moving forward, I believe it will be easier for the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) to go through these audit reports. Otherwise, this is going to be the circus year-in, year-out, and every regime will have to form task forces to evaluate the pending bills. Finally, Parliament has a constitutional mandate of budget-making and oversight. We must live up to our mandate and the dream of Kenyans. We must protect their rights by passing effective budgets and not because a few of us have interests therein."
}