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    "id": 416658,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. H.K. Njuguna",
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        "legal_name": "Humphrey Kimani Njuguna",
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    "content": "Hon. Deputy Speaker, I rise to support this Motion. I had a chance to work as a board member of the Public Procurement Oversight Authority in 2012. Historically, public procurement in Kenya has gone through a major phase in the sense that before 2001, there was nothing that we could call a legal framework governing public procurement in spite of the importance of Government procurement. In fact, the closest we came to having a law was in 2001 when we developed the Exchequer Regulations because of the pressure that we were having from the donor community, development partners and progressive Kenyans. It is important to appreciate the importance of public procurement because of the magnitude of the money involved. Like hon. Sakaja has pointed out, public procurement takes 60 per cent of the current annual Budget. This translates to Kshs800 billion to Kshs1 trillion. When you look at this magnitude, you realize the importance of these amendments and other amendments that the Members are likely to bring forward. When you talk about public procurement, you are talking about the biggest domestic market in any economy, which has the potential to determine economic growth and development. Here I mean the pace and the direction of growth and development."
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