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    "id": 523298,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Nyenze",
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        "id": 1987,
        "legal_name": "Francis Mwanzia Nyenze (Deceased)",
        "slug": "francis-mwanzia-nyenze"
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    "content": "consult the MCAs. Then you find shoddy jobs being paid for exorbitantly. Those are the losses that the county governments are incurring. We do not want to export corruption to the counties. That is why we are saying that public procurement should be strengthened in the counties so that there is efficiency, transparency, equity and fair play. We should not be treated to these kinds of situations where money is spent and after one rainy season, no vehicle can pass through that road because no murram was put yet, colossal amounts of money have been spent. This country is made up of 42 tribes. Most of the contracts, and I have no regrets to say this, go to persons from certain communities who own companies; other communities never get big contracts. Through this, because the Government controls 85 per cent of the national Budget, only 15 per cent goes to the county. If you do not re- distribute wealth through procurement--- Companies that win big tenders come from only two or three regions. This will create instability in this country because some people will grow poor and others will grow rich. Those who are poor are more than those who are rich. They will later know that they are poor and suffering because of poor and biased procurement. I want to give an example. If you look at the Standard Gauge Railway that passes through Ukambani, more than one-half of it passes through Ukambani from Mtito wa Ndei to Nairobi. However, how many people from the Kamba Community have got contracts there? I can assure you, nearly none. How many Maasais have got any contract? Nobody! How many Taitas have got a contract? Nobody! Surely, if this railway line is passing through those regions and these people just go there as casual workers, are we not creating instability? Hon. Speaker, I want to appeal to the National Assembly to keep on revising these public procurement laws so that those communities that may lack capacity to produce contractors to take those tenders, we do an affirmative action. We should try to promote and educate them so that they get part of the cake because it belongs to all of us. This country belongs to all of us. However, when you see a contract say geothermal or electricity generation--- One thing that the Jubilee Government has done well is to distribute electricity everywhere for the laptop project although the laptops did not come, they may not come and they will not come."
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