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    "speaker_name": "Mr. Midiwo",
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        "legal_name": "Washington Jakoyo Midiwo",
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    "content": "Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, therefore, with those very many remarks, I want to plead with my brother Eugene to consider the discrimination which he would create just because he had an idea put across by hon. Kimunya; that, to me, is not the way to go. That limits and creates reverse discrimination. Let us force the Government. The Government has so much money that if we bought locally, there would be no reason---. The Government will be supplying the money and the goods will be there for it to buy. If we did this, we will not have people beyond 35 years of age saying that they have nowhere to turn to. Also the very major point which I was trying to think of, and which has been put across by hon. Kimunya is; what procurements are singular in nature? You do not want to create a mess by trying to legislate. You do not want legislation that makes it worse for our people. You will get so-and-so who has the capacity forming several companies and getting contracts. They will still go to the same people because they have the capacity and they are often very corrupt. Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, I want to inform hon. Eugene Wamalwa that procurement in roads, which I was almost forgetting, involves corrupt road contractors, who must be stopped from fleecing our people. Right now it is raining and the country has no roads. I said something last week and some people said I was using politics. I said that it is only one contractor who is always given the tender to do the Kisumu-Busia Road. This guy was on that road nine months ago, and now around Chulaimbo, the road is impassable. As soon as you go beyond the Sidindi-Rang’ala-Busia stretch, you cannot drive fast on that road. It takes four hours to drive from Busia to Kisumu, just because one contractor must be given the job. I want to say that I called the Minister and the PS last week. I also wrote to them and told them that if they gave that contract to M/s Hayer, I would go to court because it is not fair to our people. It is all over our country. We must use this Bill to stop corruption in procurement in the Roads Ministry once and for all, and we will be coming up with a raft of amendments. Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, I thank you."
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