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    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Eng.) Gumbo",
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        "legal_name": "Nicholas Gumbo",
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    "content": "important for a Report like this one to indicate how many licenced companies are currently in need of frequencies. This is important because if you look at this Report that has been done by the Committee, you will notice that it talks, for instance, on page 13, highly about the Safaricom’s record. But for those of us who sit in the ICT Committee and the country as a whole know that Safaricom, for a long time, has had problems with quality of service. Then if you look at page 17, then you have to ask a question: How paragraph 3 of page 13 will be done without a spectrum allocation policy. What hon. A.B. Duale said, you cannot quantify spectrum without independent costing. Then you would also need to ask what valuation criterion or methodology was used in quantifying this spectrum. Just before I move to my amendment on page 17, I have looked at the report. It talks of the ability of the company to expeditiously implement the system. I sat in some of the Committee’s deliberations and one of the questions that came up was that Safaricom is a giant in the region in terms of GSM network roll out but, for sure, it has no experience on security contracting. You also notice on page 17 that the report talks of verifiable bills of quantities giving qualities and verifiable prices. It would have been good if the Committee investigating had Safaricom give them the specifications and bills of quantities so that they can do a value for money audit. The valuation by Safaricom of the project at Kshs14.9 billion definitely begs the question: Against which offer was this price verified as fair?"
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