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"content": "I like the fact that some people can be barred from taking part in the process. The list is actually fair. We may need one amendment here, but there are people who have constantly messed the public procurement and development and they continue to participate in procurement in Government departments and agencies. This Bill gives a clear reason why one should be barred. That is really acceptable. This law also allows accounting officers or procurement entities to establish structures and procedures. Nothing can be better than that. It is not that the officers and the governors are sitting with those and dispensing. What is required of them is to put in place the structures that will make it possible for procurement to take place. Here, I want to quote a bit. They can constitute all procurement and asset disposal committees within a procurement entity in accordance with this Act and ensure procurement plans are prepared in conformity with the medium-term fiscal framework. Let me apply myself to that. There is nothing worse than having funds to a Government entity which has a plan and when you see their procurement, it bears no resemblance at all to the development plans that they have. With this law, agencies will now be forced to have a procurement plan that can be scrutinised and be in line with what you intend to do. It has not been unusual in the Government to hear that money was set aside to put up a structure, but was used to buy a vehicle. If you have a procurement plan, as now clearly indicated here, it will go a long way in helping us so long as we implement the law."
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