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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. G.W. Omondi",
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        "legal_name": "George Washinton Mallan Omondi",
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    "content": "Thank you, hon. Speaker for giving me this opportunity to talk to this important Bill - the Public Procurement and Assets Disposal Bill. Historically speaking, we can trace the problems of the current Procurement and Asset Disposal Act from the fact that it was introduced to us by the World Bank, International Monetary Fund (IMF) and other donors. We, in return, took it and implemented it without thinking much about it. The reasons for its introduction by the donors were to control corruption and check abuse of office, which was considered to be anti-development. When we failed to think too much about this when we adopted it, local conditionalities were not taken into account. There was, as other speakers have said, increased corruption and discrimination of new entrants into business. In some cases, local businessmen were completely left out. The other problem that the existing law has brought about is the low absorption of development resources and delays in project implementation, which is one of the factors that has hindered development and has concerned many leaders of this country. Attempts to correct those anomalies have been piecemeal. For example, the 30 per cent youth procurement business, women and people with disability was introduced to take into account some of those failures. The Bill as composed tries to address those shortcomings. It also tries to take into account our current system of devolved governance, which was introduced by the new Constitution in 2010. Briefly speaking, there are several clauses that have tried to address the anomalies that I have just talked about. Clause 3(a), (b), (c) and (i) addresses some of the shortcomings which were not taken into account during the implementation of the existing law. This clause addresses national values, equity and freedom from 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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