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    "id": 517874,
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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Gikaria",
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        "legal_name": "David Gikaria",
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    "content": "reports on a quarterly basis, just as hon. Sakaja has said. He is going to indicate some penalties. If a procurement entity does not meet that requirement, then what action should be taken? It is important for us to get those reports in Parliament. One thing we need to consider is this: It is one thing to say 30 per cent but another to say the youth, women and people living with disability being able to register companies without any problems. It has become a cumbersome process where they have to come to Nairobi. We also have to look at other laws that relate to the Companies Act, Cap, 486 to see how we can make it easier. Lastly, people have also taken advantage of those disadvantaged groups. We need to put some caution so that I, David Gikaria, or any other person, should not have access to such funds. That is because for me to qualify, I will take my children and indicate that it is a youth company. Business people are using their sons, daughters and women to get into this. At the end of the day, those less disadvantaged people cannot gain through the process that we want to establish. It is important that people also do not use companies of their children and deny the unfortunate in society. We will bring some amendments to try and see how we are going to use those other laws to ease the process of company registration so that those people can be enabled. The National Construction Authority which has become an authority now is part of the requirement that most of the procurement entity use to charge exorbitant fees fro m those less advantaged groups. They have now increased fees up to Kshs35,000 to register a construction company. We have young boys and girls who are graduating from university and who are architects and engineers and they would want to start a company of their own. But they are told to pay a registration fee of up to Kshs75,000. It, thus, becomes very difficult for them to acquire those services. So, we also need to look at other laws that will simplify the process for women, youth and people living with disability, so that they can benefit from what we are passing here in Parliament. With those few remarks, hon. Speaker, I support the amendments from the Senate."
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