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    "id": 487142,
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    "speaker_name": "Hon. H.K. Njuguna",
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        "legal_name": "Humphrey Kimani Njuguna",
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    "content": "threshold is very high because it talks about the fact that there must be an emergency. The method must be such that other methods as outlined in the Act are more or less impracticable. In this tender, we agonized as a Committee. We interrogated the insecurity in this country. Quite honestly, we must accept that no other time in the history of this country have we been faced with issues of insecurity where all of us are concerned. Over the weekend, this Committee was in Lamu again to play our oversight role. Why should 67 Kenyans die? We know where we are coming from; the Westgate attack and the various other terrorist attacks in this country, in churches and buses. We cannot wish away the issue of insecurity in this country. Even as we debate this Motion, we know that this country is losing billions because of the travel advisory. At the Coast, hotels are almost empty during the high season. When we looked at those issues, as a Committee, we realised that the issue of insecurity in this country is such that it is now an emergency. When you lose 64 Kenyans and continue losing others, with our porous borders and all other issues that are within our domain, then it is an emergency where Section 74 of the Public Procurement and Disposal Act should apply. As much as you would want to talk about Article 227 of the Constitution, there is this exception when we are faced with the issues of insecurity that we are faced with in this country. I do not think we can trade the lives of Kenyans. They are worth trillions. On that account, we said that this tender met the constitutional and legal threshold. On that, I support this Motion as amended."
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