{"id":340270,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/340270/?format=json","text_counter":79,"type":"speech","speaker_name":"Dr. Otichilo","speaker_title":"","speaker":{"id":131,"legal_name":"Wilber Ottichilo Khasilwa","slug":"wilber-ottichilo"},"content":"asked the Minister for Finance:- (a) whether he is aware that the bureaucracy embedded within the public procurement law is the main cause of non-expenditure of development funds in our National Annual Budgets; (b) whether he is also aware that the law remains rigid and is made up of all paper-based systems and has not embraced the use of ICT or e-procurement; and, (c) when the Government will amend the law to make it open, transparent, simple and ICT compliant."}