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    "content": "newcomer into the business. You hear that you are supposed to have a capital investment of so much money and sometimes you might even not know how to get to it. It is not a process that can encourage newcomers into the industry. It is limited by the amount of money you are supposed to have in order to have the bank bids. So, in other words, this is a process which should be reviewed. This is the right time for us to do it in this House. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, you also realize that the youth, women, disabled and even the poor are left behind. What happens is that those people who are used to the process will continue being the suppliers. They will end up even supplying counterfeit goods which are not required by the company. They are used to the process. This Bill is trying to seek ways of correcting some of these anomalies. These are the anomalies that we are trying to address so that we get the right people encouraged to do what is right. In any case, it is even stated in our various manifestos and it is also important that it should be used as one way of encouraging the youth out there so that they can feel that they are taking part in the economic development of our country. Some of these conditions should be made simpler. The language should be simplified, so that it can be understood by a majority of those candidates who, otherwise, would be left out in acquiring the tenders for supply in the various companies. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, you will also get to know that the requirements which are supposed to be met like the physical address of the company may be prohibitive. You may have a company stationed in Mombasa and yet, they want a physical address in Nairobi and so you might not qualify for the tender. In some cases, there are people whose physical address may not even be in this country, but they may still be awarded the tender. This is applying double standards. In some cases, there is favoritism. Some of those conditions are tailored to favour a certain lot of people who are the same ones who have been supplying these items over a long time and any introduction of newcomers is discouraged by those conditions. These amendments are necessary so that we go by what is required in the Bill. That is the reason I am supporting this Bill. Thank you."
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