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    "id": 225842,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Prof. Ojiambo",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Julia Auma Ojiambo",
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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I beg to move that the Supplies 762 PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES April 18, 2007 Practitioners Management Bill be now read a Second Time. This is a Bill for an Act of Parliament to make provision for the training, registration and licensing of suppliers practitioners and to regulate their practice for connected purposes. The Act may be cited as Supplies Practitioners Management Act, 2007. This Bill had been debated in this House, completed and was awaiting Third Reading, when unfortunately, time expired during the last Session. Therefore, the Bill lapsed. This House had very comprehensively discussed this Bill. It had also received the report of the House Committee and the report from the Minister's office. Any amendments that the Ministry of Finance had, had also been submitted. Therefore, the re-printed Bill is a comprehensive document that has brought together all the views that were expressed in this House, including all the amendments that had been brought forth. Therefore, we have very little to talk about the Bill. Nevertheless, I want to emphasise that this Bill is very important and urgent, and this House should pass it. As we said when we were debating the Bill last year, the Bill is important for the smooth operationalisation of the Public Procurement and Disposal Act. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, we did mention that the Public Procurement and Disposal Act had recognized the fact that professionalism was very important in implementing an efficient procurement system. We also did mention that, indeed, that Act had called for the establishment of a professional organisation. That is the subject of this Bill. We have, over and again, talked about corruption in this country. Indeed, that is the subject that the Public Accounts Committee has been dwelling upon. In all our discussions, it has been mentioned that procurement has been used by corrupt individuals as a means of enriching themselves. This has been repeated every time we have made mention of the Ministry of Roads and Public Works with regard to procurement, road maintenance,"
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