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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Gikaria",
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        "legal_name": "David Gikaria",
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    "content": "timelines regarding the time they are taken to court and the time they should be executed in full. Going back to the Bill, and I do not want to repeat what most of my colleagues have said, the introduction of the county governments diplomatic missions and the pension funds for public entities is something of importance. It is even more important to the county governments where we have seen a lot of issues coming up. I want to thank the Judiciary for having spoken through the Embu County case by kicking out the Governor. He was taken through a legal process for corrupt practices. It is a warning to the other county governments. However, not only the County Governors should be taken to court, we need to have everybody who was involved in issues of corruption prosecuted. The aspect of kicking out only an individual is not enough. Cases have been cited on how other countries have been able to address corruption. Singapore has been cited several times. The direction that they took is good. It is not that you are only told to refund what you have taken, but we need to keep track of some of these people. That is what Singapore did. If Gikaria is a Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of a certain place, they keep track of me for say, four or five months, including every aspect of what I do and every telephone conversation I make. At the end of the day, most people will just be punished without taking them through the due process of the law and without asking them to resign. The best thing is to go the Singapore way. The internal mechanism introduced under Part V of this Bill is very important. You will find a person who wants a product doing the tendering, the evaluation and giving the awards. The internal mechanism that has been introduced in Part V will go a long way in addressing that problem, so that if I am the user, my business is only to request. I should allow the other people to do the procurement and tendering process. It is unacceptable to allow only one office to start the process and go all the way to the end. Therefore, the process of internal mechanism is very important. In my area, the Kenya Rural Roads Authority (KERRA) and Kenya Urban Roads Authority (KURA), have a process of procurement which is not acceptable. The engineers identify a road that needs murraming and give estimates. They then take the contractor who has charged the least. They say that they are saving some money to do more projects. If a person quotes 50 per cent less than what the engineer had estimated, unless they were in cahoots to try to siphon money through that process, he should not be given the contract. When you take the lowest bidder, then you do not get value for money. If a tender is supposed to cost Kshs20 million and you award it to a person who has quoted Kshs5 million, then it means that we will be repairing that road every day. The procurement function should be managed by professionals and their estimates must be within some acceptable limits of either 10 or 15 per cent plus or minus. The principle of electronic procurement that has been introduced in Part VI is very important. With digital migration, this will improve and fasten the process of procurement. Voluminous papers are always sent in the procurement process, but with an electronic procurement process, this is going to shorten the period from when you start the process up to the time you do the project. Also, inappropriate influence on evaluation is outlawed in this Bill. As hon. Chris has said, the procurement process is usually a prior arranged process and the other people are just coming in to push an evaluation process that has already been determined. The Bill proposes that the procurement records should 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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