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    "id": 523283,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/523283/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon.H. K. Njuguna",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Humphrey Kimani Njuguna",
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    "content": "Perhaps, historically, it is important to note that we did not have anything that we would have called sound procurement law in this country. It is only in 2001 that this country was forced to come up with the famous Exchequer Regulations of 2001 which translated to the Public Procurement and Disposal Act of 2005. The mischief is that because public procurement controls a very big market, the powers that were there then did not want to have any law because they were able to manipulate this market. To prove my point, hon. Speaker, it is only after 2001 that we started hearing of Anglo Leasing, maize and “chicken” scandals. Why were they not there before 2001? It is because after 2001, we now developed a legal framework that is mandated to oversee the expenditure or the process of procuring goods and services in this country. Even with these scandals, it is good to appreciate that we are aware of them now because we now have the law. Before 2001, we did not have the law. That is why you cannot talk of the scandals then. The scandals are coming up now because we now have something that we can call a legal framework."
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