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    "speaker_name": "Mr. Baiya",
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        "legal_name": "Peter Njoroge Baiya",
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    "content": "Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, maybe there is one area where this provision might have a challenge and, perhaps, may require that we possibly do some specification. We know that there are certain contracts which, by their very nature, in terms of skills and capacity needed, may be too large or huge. Already the existing law recognizes that. If, for instance, it comes to bitumen contracts and so on in the Ministry of Roads, if you applied this kind of law where even most of our local contractors do not fit and we end up having foreign companies coming in, this law might not achieve the results we want to achieve. That is on account of the magnitude of the contract involved and, perhaps on the basis of the complexity of skills and capacity needed. Perhaps, exceptions should be made for those kinds of contracts. I also have in mind other contracts that may really anticipate substantial technical input that sometimes may not be locally available. Those kinds of criteria would, indeed, be admissible as a basis for excluding this requirement for affirmative action in favour of the youth. But when it comes to the majority of procurement cases, for example, stationery, small road construction in the constituencies and many others, there is a strong case for us to insist that our youth be looked into."
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