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    "id": 211989,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Kiunjuri",
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        "legal_name": "Festus Mwangi Kiunjuri",
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    "content": "Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, you obviously know that Mr. Kajwang must say something criticizing the Government whether good things have been done or not. However, I will first of all advise him to go and pay money for those primary schools, that is Kshs32,044 for a three phase connection, so that they can benefit. I want to remind him to go and do exactly that! Secondly, some of the challenges we are facing arise because the law is not explicit. For example, in the Procurement Bill that we passed, we said that the locals should be advantaged by the 15 per cent over the international tenderers. But the law did not say; \"It shall.\" It has left it open. What they are doing now is that, they are going to court and claiming that the law allows them to have 15 per cent. There is no way you can stop them from going to court as a Ministry. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, we have done everything that is possible but we want to ask the House to come up with rules and regulations that will enable our people to be advantaged. Otherwise, some of the Chief Executive Officers (CEOs) will say that the law is not explicit on whether we should give the 15 per cent. If they go to appeal, the Ministry has nothing to do."
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