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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Ms.) Ghati",
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        "legal_name": "Dennitah Ghati",
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    "content": "Thank you very much, hon. Speaker. Allow me to support the amendments by the Senate. This Bill is long overdue. We have discussed it in this House. As hon. Wanyonyi says, the Senate was probably just looking at our grammatical errors here and there. Nothing much has changed. I support this Bill and those amendments because I am a woman, a youth and now a person with disability. The Senate has considered what we discussed in this House. It is high time we looked at how women, especially poor grassroots women, can access those tenders. The 30 per cent rule on tendering is not very clear, especially when it comes to women at the grassroots. Most of our women do not understand how to tender. Information is usually not available at the grassroots. How do they prequalify? How do they put in their requests? This is a challenge we have to address. Public entities and county governments should make sure that information on how to apply for those tenders is displayed publicly and loudly to reach women so that they know when those institutions call for tenders and how to prequalify. With devolution, so many people are taking advantage of women. We have so many people who are taking Identification Cards (IDs) and so much information from women in the pretext that they are helping them to register companies. However, they end up putting their children and cronies in charge of those companies. We also need to look at and lobby the county governments. We have many women who have not registered companies because they do not know the procedures of how companies are registered. I would, therefore, propose that we make some laws that are very simple and easy to understand, especially for women. If there are registered groups, for example, from my county in a ward like North Kanyamkago or South Kanyamkago, those women groups can even access tenders using their groups’ registration certificates. That way, it becomes easier so that women with a valid group registration certificate are also able to clean the road and collect garbage. We also have the tendency to think that women, youth and people with disabilities should only get small tenders for menial work like cleaning a road instead of getting huge tenders that can improve their lives. So, I support the amendments by the Senate. They are long overdue. They will also save the disadvantaged groups. I am happy that the Senate has considered the disadvantaged groups as very serious groups. They have clearly indicated here “disadvantaged group”, “women”, “people with disability” and the “youth”. For a long The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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