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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Kenyatta",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Uhuru Muigai Kenyatta",
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    "content": "Mr. Speaker, Sir, it is on page one of this Report. It states:- \"The Department of Immigration requested the Ministerial Tender Committee in the Office of the President for authority to procure a passport issuing system through restricted tendering citing the security nature of passports and the issuing system. This was supported by the Ministerial Tender Committee\". As you will see, a number of firms were invited to tender namely, De La Rue Identity Systems of the United Kingdom, AIT International PLC of the United Kingdom, Face Technologies of South Africa, Setec OY of Finland, and Johannes Enschede of Netherlands. Three out of these five firms responded and after their tenders were considered for having met both commercial and technical requirements of the tender at a quoted price of Kshs622,039,944.65. That was the project that was identified. That was the need that was identified by the Department of Immigration. It is important to note that fact. Mr Speaker, Sir, in a letter dated 20th August, 2002, the Department of Immigration sought authority from the Permanent Secretary, Office of the President to procure the system in the year 2002/2003. The Department of Immigration indicated that it was prudent to modify the specifications of the system to allow for a phased implementation over a period of several years. That happened after the first tender was rejected not on the basis of need but rather on the basis that there was no budgetary provision in the estimates of 2001/2002. Mr. Speaker, Sir, once again, a number of firms quoted and the quotes are referred to on page 2 of the Report. Somewhere along the line, information that has been made available to our Committee firmly indicates that it did not originate with the Department of Immigration but somewhere along the line it was decided that this project needed to be expanded. This project, with the consultation of various Government bodies including the Government Information Technology Service (GITS) Treasury and the Department of Immigration was expanded. Apparently as indicated, it was realised that the cost of the proposed system would be high and the funding would not be available. It is on record that our Committee was told that the Department of Immigration insisted that as much as they may not have needed this expanded system, no other country in the world actually had a system such as was being designed for Kenya."
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