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    "id": 522763,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/522763/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Ochieng’",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 2955,
        "legal_name": "David Ouma Ochieng'",
        "slug": "david-ouma-ochieng"
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    "content": "The major issue about this procurement law is the fact that we want to have an effective system that can help us do this. For us to be able to have that, timeliness is an important matter. Bodies charged to procure public assets and dispose of them must always bear in mind that we are doing this to ease doing business. Kenya has been ranked severally. This year, I saw we have been ranked very low. One of the reasons for the low ranking is our procurement law. We take so much time to do this. Even in terms of the way we solve our disputes, it takes so long that even the person who was interested easily loses interest in our process. I do not want to belabour much the point. Going forward, we must be able to ensure that Government institutions, be they parastatals or Ministries are not held hostage by the National Treasury. Once they second officials to these Ministries, they must be allowed to do their job. Procurement function is just part of what a Ministry or a parastatal does. So, we should not use procurement laws to hold these institutions hostage in whatever they do."
}