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    "id": 487145,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. ole Ntutu",
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        "legal_name": "Patrick Keturet Ole Ntutu",
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    "content": "So, hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I was happy when Safaricom came to our Committee and showed us how that technology has been used by other countries and have reduced crime rates to certain levels. The issue that was interesting to our Committee is why the Ministry of Interior and Coordination of Government used direct procurement. I answered that by saying that there were two issues that were brought to our Committee. The reason why they used direct procurement is because it emerged that the procurement entity which is the Ministry of Interior and Coordination of National Security arrived at the decision to procure directly from Safaricom due to protracted nature of previous tenders to police communication and surveillance system, as well as the need to urgently set up the system to address run away insecurity in our country. We know that in this country nowadays, when there is any procurement, people will run to courts to stop it. That is what has been happening. I am happy to hear our Leader of Minority Party saying that there have been a lot of court cases on the previous communication networks. It is true and this was done in good faith. I can assure this House that for most of us who sat in all the sittings, we interrogated those people. We had almost eight sittings, and we are satisfied that, that procurement entity has met the threshold."
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