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    "id": 225844,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Prof. Ojiambo",
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        "legal_name": "Julia Auma Ojiambo",
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    "content": ". We aim, therefore, to seal loopholes that have enabled public and private servants to squander recklessly the resources of this country. Apart from the many billions of shillings that the Kenyan child bears on his back as a loan that he must suffer to re-pay when he or she actually does not know how it came about, we also recognise the fact that this country spends nearly Kshs150 billion on public procurement every year, during which period also losses of about Kshs30 billion are incurred through poor procurement practices. So, all this has opened up loopholes and caused siphoning of public resources that could have been well used to develop this nation. Those are resources which could go towards the education of our children, improvement of health services, feeding of the poor and reduction of poverty in this country that the mwananchi suffers today. This House must make it difficult for the vice called \"corruption\" to exist in Kenya. In summary, this Bill provides for training, as we have said. In broad terms, administrative provisions are outlined for the management of the supplies practitioners profession. We have provisions for their examination, registration and licensing. We have a provision on arbitration and discipline. This is very important, because people entrusted with the resources of this country have mishandled them and have not been held to account because there has been no legal framework within which to do so. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, this time round, we are saying that, as we enact this Bill, public officers who will manage the procurement process will be held to account for their actions. We also have in this Bill provisions on finance and miscellaneous provisions to ensure that the ethics and integrity of the profession are protected. We have schedules on the conduct of business and affairs of the council of the proposed institute to manage the affairs of this profession. In summary, we intend to close the loopholes in the Public Procurement and Disposal Act that was passed by this House in the year 2005. We also, by this Bill, intend to clarify who is a procurement professional whom the Public Procurement and Disposal Act, 2005, says shall be primarily responsible for ensuring that the public entity fulfils its obligation under that Act. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I did say that this Bill had been extensively discussed, April 18, 2007 PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES 763 and so I will not go into the details and repeat myself on what we have already so nicely completed. Therefore, I will rest my case at that and request Mr. Oparanya, who is a Member of the Departmental Committee on Finance, Planning and Trade, to second this debate. I beg to move."
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